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1. Introduction to landscape drawing: Hey guys, join MEC minimum here. In today's class, we're
gonna be learning about how to draw a landscape. I'm going to teach you
some of the skills of perspective drawing. That's when things disappear into the distance and
they get smaller. So there's a certain
style of drawing, it's called perspective drawing. So I'm going to teach you
about how to do that. And then we're going
to draw a really cool, I'm Scottish farm scene with a really cool old stone
cottage in a farm gate. So yeah, this one's
gonna be fun. So I hope you guys got everything you need and
you're ready to get started.
2. 1. One Point perspective: So the first thing we're gonna do is I'm
going to teach you something about how to
draw in perspective. Now, I don't know if you guys
know what bespeak diverse, but perspective is when things disappear
into the distance, they get smaller as they
disappear into the distance. So I'm going to teach you
guys how to draw that. Okay, so the first
thing we're gonna do is we're going to do a couple of kind
of practice pages before we do our real thing. So the first thing
we're gonna do is up on the top corner, I want you just to
draw a little box, although square, sorry. Okay, so use your ruler. Doesn't matter how big it is. And draw a square like that. Okay? Starting off with the square,
Pretty, pretty simple. Now, trying to try and keep up with what
I'm doing here guys. So what we're gonna do
now is we're gonna, we're gonna put in
a vanishing point, emits That's like in the distance, the
thing in the distance. So you see where my square is? Up on the top right-hand
corner, up here somewhere. We're just gonna
do a little dot. And just beside it, right? Vp. Okay, and it stands
for vanishing point. Just a dot. Okay? Now what are you going to
do is you're going to roll lines from the vanishing point to each corner of the square. Okay, So watch the screen, watch the screen setup here. And you're gonna rule align back to that corner down here. I'm gonna give you guys a
minute to catch up because you've probably
stressing out right now. So you're gonna do that for all three of the corners that are facing towards
the vanishing point. Alright, now these are
cool perspective lines. Okay? So when you draw
perspective lines, they have to go back to the
vanishing point, the VP. So don't do any lines
that go off into nowhere. They have to go back to
the vanishing point. Okay, Good. So that's pretty,
that's pretty basic. We've just got to a square. Now if you look at that,
if you squint your eyes, can you imagine that? That's like a long piece of
wood and you're looking at the end of it and it's
disappearing into the distance. You guys get what I mean. Cool. Alright, now we're
going to turn it into a cube, okay? And this is how we do it. We're going to draw the side
of the bulk of the cube. So you start off with your
roller on the side like this. And you just slide it
down a little bit. And then you roll, you draw a line here
between those two lines. Hopefully you guys
can see there. Let me just actually zoom in a little bit on this so
you guys can see this, but Is it a bit better? Yeah, cool. Okay. So that line there is on the
same angle as the frontline. And then you're going to
do the same at the top. You're going to start off with your ruler in line with the box, with the square and slide it up. And then draw that line
like that horizontal. If you've got an eraser, you can actually rub out some of the perspective lines that go back to the vanishing
point like that. And then you have a cube. If you've got there,
give me a thumbs up. If you're with me so far. Yeah. You can put them up on your
video or you can do an emoji. Nice, awesome, good,
good work team. So that's the basics of
drawing in perspective. Okay, Now here let's add
something else to this. If we're going to add in a
horizon line here, alright? And I'm just wanting you to roll a line like
halfway down your page, just ruler line, like this. I'm going to zoom
back out a little. So you guys can
see my whole page. This is your horizon line. Now, you guys know what
a horizon line is. You know, when you
when you're at the beach and you look out and you can see like with
the sea meets the sky, that's called the horizon line. Alright? Now the vanishing point is
always on the horizon line. That's just how
it works. So what we're gonna do is
up over the side, we're going to draw another, another shape, but let's just do like a rectangle for the shape. So we'll do like a
long shaped like this. Okay? Rectangle shape. And this time the vanishing
point is going to be down here, on the horizon. Down here, like off to the side. And we're going to
rule the lines from each corner down to like this, down to the vanishing
point. All right? You guys see what I'm
doing? You can't see it. Okay, that's cool. If you just joined this fine, you just, you just
have to catch up. So we just start off with
the shape and we're rolling lines from each corner down
to the vanishing point. Now, let's make this shape
into not just like a, like a really long one. So start off by taking
that frontline, the bottom of that
rectangle, sliding down. I'm just slide down a
little way. Actually. Just wrote draw that line in. And then on this side it
goes up vertical like that. Okay. And you can rub out some of the, rub out some of the
perspective lines. It's a good idea when you're drawing the perspective lines. Don't draw them too hard
because you're going to be rubbing them out
later on anyway. Okay. So what we see with
this shape here, we're actually looking
at it up in the sky. It's like imagine
this like a giant floating platform up in the sky. And we can see the bottom of it because it's above
the horizon line. Does that make sense?
You guys with me? Okay, cool. Okay. So there is
called one-point perspective where you just have one single point
in all the lines. Go back to that 111 like that. Alright, that's cool.
3. 2. Two Point perspective part 1: Now that's not the only way to draw in perspective
is actually another way and that's called
two-point perspective. So what do I need
to do is flip over your paper or get another pace if you want
to get a new piece. Alright, we're going to draw
this in 2 perspective now. Alright? So we're going to start
off with our horizon line, which is about halfway
across the picture. Okay? Now, for two-point perspective, while we do is we have two vanishing points and we're looking at the side of
the corner of the object. So roundabout here,
what I want you to do is draw a single
line like that. That's like a
vertical line. Okay. That goes across
the horizon line. Make it closer to the
left side if you can. And now we're going to put in a vanishing point on this side. Okay? And we're gonna
just do a little dark, right? Vanishing point. You know the deal. From the top and the
bottom of the line. We're going to rule
our perspective lines back to the vanishing
point like that. Okay? Now, don't be
stressed out if this is, if this is true myth
and medical for you and you don't
like doing maths. Then now we're gonna get
into some sketching soon. We will be doing some
freehand drawing as well. But this is good for
learning the basics. So then on the opposite side this time with your
vanishing point, with your second one, make it quite further out
along the line to the ene. So it's a longer distance. Okay, and then line it up. Drop your two lines like this. You should have kind of a weird almost a kite shape on its side. Give me a thumbs up. If you
guys are still with me. He runs, okay. Okay. If it's too hard, then yeah. You might you can go back
and watch it later. Okay. That's fine. Okay. So now what we
have is the corner of an object that's disappearing into the distance on both sides. Okay? Now what we're gonna
do is we're going to roll a line like this, a vertical line here, that's
the side of the building. We're actually drawing
a building here. And then on this
side, same again, roll another line vertical and rub out the horizon line because you can't see
through this building. Okay. So imagine that it's
just like a block house. Do any of you guys
play Minecraft? Probably some of you. Okay. Okay. Really quickly we
don't want you to do is turn this block, this block here into a house. You can draw anything you
want to turn it into a house. Okay, so I'm going to draw like a door then withdrawal window. Now, one of the things
I didn't actually tell you is that all the vertical
lines are vertical, but all the horizontal lines go back to the vanishing point. Okay, so my window
actually looks like that. Give it its got straight
up and down sides. But the top and the bottom are lined up with the
vanishing points. So the top of my door
slammed up like that. Once I've done that, I
can draw whatever I want. I can draw like a door handle. I can draw like
Part of the thing. They can do some
flowers around here. I can do a path
coming off like this. It looks a bit weird
without a roof, but yeah. You guys get what I'm
trying to say. Okay. Now, on the left-hand
side of your building, if you haven't drawn
anything on there yet, we're gonna do some bricks. This is, this is pretty easy. What you do is you
start off with you, make sure your role is lined
up with the vanishing point. And you just roll some lines
like this that go down, down the building like this. Can you guys see what I'm doing? See all those lines. Angle back to the
vanishing point there. Yeah, so make sure that
you're all the lines. You use, your ruler, watch my, watch my movement. The rule that goes
fans around like that, but it's always connected to
the vanishing point here. Fans around. Okay? Okay. So what we're gonna do is pretty soon we're going to move on to doing
our main picture, but we'll probably just do a little bit more
practice on this, on this perspective
thing for now. Okay? So that's
how you draw like a building that you're looking at the corner
of the building. And you can see both
sides like that.
4. 3. Two Point perspective part 2: Okay, so same setup again, guys. So we're starting
off with this sum. We're gonna do the horizon
line a bit higher. So do it up about a third
of the way up your page. Okay? And, um, what we're gonna do
here is we're gonna do a, um, we're gonna start out
vertical line our corner. Down near the bottom. Case, there's quite a big gap between the top and the bottom. So just draw a vertical
line about that big. And then we're gonna put in
at two vanishing points, VP, Vp, one on each side. Hopefully you guys
still with me. Then we're going to
rule from the top and the bottom of each line, sorry, top and the bottom of that line, back to the vanishing
points on each side. She should end up with
a shape that looks like kinda like an
arrow pointing down. When you've done that,
you can just hold it up and show me in the
camera so I can have a lot yet. Oh, yep. Good. Okay. Good. Yeah. Good work. Awesome. Yeah. Alright. Good luck team. Yeah. Thank you. I think you're up with it. I think
you're getting it. If you're falling a bit behind or you're finding this hard, then don't stress about it. You can come back
to it later on. Now those are the two sides of our shape going back
into the distance. But we don't want it to go all the way back
to the distance. We want to actually
make it into a shape. So decide how big you
want your object. And say I'm going to draw
my vertical line here. I'm going that far back in
same on the opposite side and roughly You got my two
lines here and here. Now here's where it gets a
little tricky. From this one. You've got to draw
from the top of this line to the opposite
vanishing point. Okay, so this one
goes to this side. And this one goes
to the other side. And see what happens. You can darken up all
your lines if you want. So from the object, you can rub, rub out the extra perspective lines
that we don't need anymore. He should have an object
looking something like this that I'm showing
you on the screen now. How are we going, guys? Is that working? Yeah.
Natasha is iPhone. That's not really
working as it yet. Good Lady, Lady, Lady. It's good. Lily. Good.
Maggie, infant. Good. Being enjoyed. Just make sure those sides
are nice and vertical. So the sides go
straight up and down. Okay. Make sure they don't curve out. Laura can't see yours
yet, but fuzzy. Mayor, Good evening, Elizabeth. Good. All right. Good work team. Okay. So while we get while people
are catching up, this is like a little
podium, isn't it? So what can you draw that
standing on this podium, can you make something up? What would be something cool
that standing on there. I'm going to draw like minds like an Olympic person. Spiky here. I didn't know what kind
of sport they play, but there could be
like maybe they like a javelin thrower and they've got a really long
javelin and the hand. Okay, cool. You can draw something funny
on there if you want to. Okay. So hopefully, hopefully you
guys have got that idea. So if we recap, if we go back to the
beginning when we talked about this one is called
one-point perspective. So that's where you can see
the whole front of an object and the sides are disappearing back to
one vanishing point. Okay? And if you guys can imagine, let's say this horizon
line here is like, there's mountains like this. Can you guys see my picture? And imagine this is
the vanishing point. And there's like
a road like this. You see that? So you're driving along the
road and the road is getting smaller and smaller
disappearing into the distance. Here. If we had
like a tree here, and a tree here will be smaller and a trace here will
be even smaller. So as things disappear
into the distance, they get smaller and smaller. Okay, so this idea
of perspective. And then we did the two
points where you've got, you can see both
sides of the object. And that's good for drawing
like buildings and stuff. And then we prefer to say
it again with the podium.
5. 4. Drawing a landscape: Alright, and we are going to be drawing this picture today. Can you guys see
that? All right. Yeah. Now, can you see why I taught
you guys about perspective? There's two things that are in this picture that we need
to use perspective on. Can you see them? So one of them is the, one of them is this
house thing here, which is like it's like an old stone cottage or
something cool like that. Yeah. So if you look at it, you can actually see that the horizon line
is back over here. And then the roof kind of
angles down like that. You can't really see
the base of the house, but it's sort of angles up. Okay, So that's, that's
that idea of perspective. So we're going to try
using perspective to draw the house and then also see
this gate in the front. See how we can see
one side and it gets a bit smaller as it
disappears off that way. So we're gonna, we're gonna use some of those new skills that we learned to try and
draw this really well. You guys ready to go? Guys? Cool, awesome. So starting off with the HB, we're going to start off
like really lightly. So don't press too hard. Otherwise, it'll be harder
to rub it out later on. Okay. The first thing I'm
going to draw, hang on. I might set to zoom out a
little bit so you guys can see, firstly, I'm going to draw
it as the horizon line. Hopefully, you guys can see
they all kinda, kinda, okay. So in this picture the horizon
line is roughly halfway. It's a bit hard because
there are some hills. So these hills come
up above the line. So we're just gonna do it like about halfway
down that picture. Okay, so start off with a line. Then what we're gonna
do is we're gonna just draw the the front
of this house here. Okay. So see how the house is on. It's probably like and about 1 third of the
way across the picture. So we're gonna guess
it to be about here. And we're going to roll a line really carefully like that. So this line here is basically going to be that
line there on our house. Sorry, I'm finding
it a little bit. There we go. That's better, isn't it? Now you've got it
in your screen. So that's our first line
we're going to draw. Now, a vanishing point is
gonna be off here on the side. So do a little dot like way
out on the right-hand side. And then remember how we do it. We're going to roll
that lines back to the vanishing point from the top and the
bottom of each line. Now, don't do it
too hard because we will have to rub these out. Now. The yeah, we'll just do the
vanishing point on the other side as well. Okay, so we've got our
vanishing point like this and our lines
going like that. Cool. Now, we can't see as much of the end of the building
like this, this part here. So we're just going to kind
of to the side about there. And the sides maybe here. Okay. What we're gonna do
now is we're actually going to stop using
the roller now. Put your ruler away. And we're just going to
start sketching it in. Okay. Oh, sorry. There's one more bit that
we have to use a rule of four and that's for the roof. Okay? So what we're gonna do is the angle of the roof
comes up like this. And then the top of the roof goes back to the
vanishing point as well. Okay, So you basically just draw like roll a
little line like that. I'll do it all the way
so you guys can see. Once you've got this far, we're going to start
sketching it in. So to sketch it in, you're going to look
at this, this end, but this kind of Viva here, upside down V, it's
gonna be like this. You can use sort
of sketchy lines. Now you don't have to use
like really sharp lines. And you guys see how there's like a little chimney
on top of the house. So that sort of
goes up from there. There's another one on the other into a little chimney bit.
6. 5. Drawing the gate: So now we're going to look
at the rest of the picture. Okay. Do you see how we've got this
gate right at the front? So what we're gonna do is
we're going to draw the gate. Now. The gate goes pretty much
from the bottom of the house, almost to the bottom of
the picture like this. So we're gonna go
a little bit over. We're going to draw the gates
to sketch it in like that. Okay, so that's like the one that front posterior
that we're drawing. And then we're going to use the same vanishing
point for the gate. So we're going to draw it
from the dots from the top of the gate to the bottom of
the gate like that. Okay. You guys are still with
me? You're not with me. You cut out. Okay. I am sorry. Covering
the drawing up. Okay. Well, we've done so
we've got the house. First of all, we did the
perspective on the house. Now we're doing the
gate because that's the other bit that
Scott perspective. So we draw the front posts
and then we do the vanishing, sorry, the perspective
lines back to the same vanishing point. And then we've got 123455
things on the gate. So we're going to do 1231234. Oh, I didn't do enough. I need to do two in there. The gate doesn't go all
the way to the distance, so it's only going to
go about this far. And so what we can do is once you've got that rough
shaping the earth AND gate, you can actually rub out all of the perspective
lines that you don't need. And we're just left with
the shape of the gate.
7. 6. Drawing the hills: Nice. So now we're
gonna go back to, we're going to start
using are copying skills. Okay? So you notice how we'll start off
with the landscape. So you notice how in
the distance we've got this nice rolling
hill in this valley, but we're going to draw that in. So up above, this is like a kind of rolling
hill that comes down. And then there's a
bit of a big hill that comes up like like that. You guys can you guys can kind of do that
however you like. So if it's not exactly exactly like I have it in my
picture, then that's fine. So a nice big hole here. And I guess the fact you can't really actually see the horizon, the
straight horizon. It's a little bit confusing. All right. And what else we got going on in front of the house, we have this kind
of grassy area. Mean is there like a little bit of a long grass and it
is a bit of short grass. Here we have this little
block wall here, don't worry. It's a bit weird. How
are we going to draw? How are we going to
draw those blocks? You guys got any ideas?
8. 7. Drawing the stone wall: So what we're gonna
do is we've got a blog post here
to sketch it in. And we're going to have
a short grass here. Long grass here and there. The lawn grass actually comes up right in front of the house. So we're going to cover up
the bottom of the house. We'll do, we'll get
into the details and texture later on. And then I guess the
blocks is kinda like this. It's like random random shapes with some grass coming
up in front of it. You guys seeing
what I'm drawing? Yeah, they're kinda like bricks. Bricks alike. They look all the same. You know, they're like,
oh, the same size. These blocks are like kinda
random different sizes a. Okay. Now, do you guys
remember back to, um, remember back to the
very first session that we did and we talked about, um, how to do tone. To remember that there's
only like two weeks ago. So you should remember that. We talked about like how
to make a shape look 3D. Alright, so let's just kinda zoom in a little bit
on this and we'll see if we can see if we can do a bit of that kind of tonal stuff on the, on the blocks, just
on the blocks.
9. 8. Adding tone: So if you've got
like a six B pencil or for B, you want to grab that? And the easiest
way to do it guys, is just to stop, like go round the outside of each block and make it a little bit darker
around the outside. And keep it nice and light
on the top of each block. So I'm just doing some
really light shading. The front of the block
is pretty light as well. But you can see these
really dark areas here in-between each block. So you see how I'm getting
quiet dark in here, in-between each block,
like a little shedder. Okay, So keep kind
of sketching it in. And if you wanna
get quite detailed, you can work on the texture. So there's some really
interesting like moss texture that's
happening all around it. So you can do that. But we probably won't go
into that much detail today. So you can see these blocks that'll look a
little bit rounded. Hey, that's what
we're going for. Sort of a little bit darker around the edges and
lighter in the middle. Do you guys think we should
do a bit of smudging on these blocks as well? Probably. Okay, so just use your finger. Give it away, smudge, get
it a little bit gray. Nice. There's a bit of darkness here
underneath that grass. So you just send to
this area here so you can sort of add in some darkness
underneath that grass. What we'll do is when we
do the texture layer, we'll come back and we'll
do this long grasses right in the front. We'll add that in, but for
now, don't worry about it. Okay? Alright, nice, cool guys. You're doing really
well by the way, just keep, keep it up. Alright, so let's have a
look at the house. Now. If we look at this house, you can see how there's
some like really dark, this one dark side. So this end piece here is
probably the darkest side. This other wall is the medium
and then the Rufus lighter. He's got some like
old moss and stuff on the roof so that
makes it look darker. But what we can do is we can add in some of the
shading on it. Okay. So just remember that the
roof comes down about here, past past the edge of the wall. Same width down here. Go. So we're just going to add some shading in here on
the side of the house. So I can like probably
a fourth tone, not super dark, but
just pretty dark. Then we can go really dark just underneath the end of the roof. Is it creates like
a nice shadow? Yeah. I'm not sure what it is. I think there's like a door anything in the I
think it's just like kind of
concrete block wall. It's actually another little there's a little sheet coming
off the side of the earth. You can see straw them
and if you like, Cool. Okay, and then on
this other wall, we should probably draw
this a little bit here. I so there's like another bit sticking
out with the doors. So it goes like this
little extra raphe bit. There we go. Kinda like that. And actually that whole, that whole side of their
butt is quite dark tone because it's facing the
same way as the end wall. You can do that really dark. And then most of
this is pretty well, just a lighter tone. Just like that. I'm still doing
this with my six B because that's my
softest pencil. So that's making that kinda
look a little bit soft. And you can do a bit of smudging to if you love doing
that, that's fine. Okay. Now, do you want to
see a cool trick for how to do the roof? Because we want the roof
to look sort of like, you know, like roofs are made
of like corrugated iron. Because now a corrugated iron is it's like a wavy kind
of roof pattern that site. Wavy, wavy. So what you
do, Here's a little trick. You basically just
line up your pencil. Used to heaps of lines, everyone watching the screen. Yes, there are heaps
of lines and arrows. So like this, make sure
they're going along the same angle as the
roof. You see that? So now we've got all those
lines which kinda tell us, oh yeah, that's a roof. And then you can
add a little bit of shading into
that roof as well. By the way, I do
those lines with like a like an HB or a to-be. Even if you want to go. You can do those
little lines are also on that little
side roof down here. There we go.
That looks cool.
10. 9. Drawing the gate in detail: Let's actually look at a gate. Now, what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to
fold my pictures so that I can fit it on here. Yeah, there we go. That's better to see. Cool. So let's have a little
closer look at our gate. We're going to sketch it
up with the HB pencil. Okay? So what we've got is we've got the
lines to start us off, but actually we need to, we need to draw them properly
so we can sketch it in. Now, you've got to just do each little bit
of wood as you go. So one, the top. We've got a nice diagonal
one going down on that way. She sketched it in the end, we're going to have 1234561234, while I've got too
many lines here. So if we start, we
do the bottom one. So that's the top
and the bottom. 12123 in the middle. Guys are just too many
lines. Sorry about that. Sometimes you just have
to check it and then counter and you figure
out what you've done. Okay, So one, 23. So when you're just a sketch in those those fits pails,
what are they called? Fence would fits wood. And you notice too
that the one on the angle is in front of
the other ones, isn't it? So you've got to draw
that one on top in front. I'm just going to you guys should be able to see
that real nice. Good. Okay, cool. So now what we're gonna do is we're going
to add some tone in here. So do you notice how
along the top of each of these fence pails there's like a lighter line and that's because the light
is hitting the top of it. Okay? So when we draw it, we're just going to leave
the top line a bit lighter. And we're going to add some
tone to the other ones. It might be a little bit
hard to do just to kind of do it their detailed
but just see if you can. Okay. And it's like these
feet spitzer, quite dark and crusty. They've got like moss on
them and gross stuff. Probably some shapes. *** bags. Yeah, nice. There's actually another isn't there another
cross piece going behind it? Can you guys see that? It's pretty hard to see. So I'm just going
to draw that in, but I'm going to
make, keep it really light in the background. Cool. Alright. Now I'm one thing you can tell is that
there's some shadows underneath these fields pile. So see these bits here, these bits here and shadows. So we have to just do a little
bit of shadow along here. And what that does
see how that makes the middle ones stand out more. That's looking alright. Alright. Now this is actually a dark line under that because there's a
shadow under there. So we can draw that
dark line all the way down on that sideways, on the angled one angled panel. And there's some other dark but in this side of the fence. The gate as well. Okay.
11. 10. Adding more tone: And there's another shader here because there's a shadow
between this concrete. This is like a stone post. In the wooden post is
like a dark shadow here. So it didn't. I guess the trick with this
kind of drawing guys is that you have to just have the picture and you have
to look really closely at it and try and
copy that what you can see onto your picture. Alright, we're not going
into too much detail on that because I don't want to get bogged down on the gate. Now, we've actually
got another little, um, another little
block wall here. So we're just going to sketch
that in this, in blocks. They look quite rounded
actually there. I don't know where this is.
This might be an England. So it looks like an English
farm scene, doesn't it? Okay, so you just sort
of sketch those blocks and then you can start to
shade them in as well. So there's some really
dark bits here. And then it's lighter on
the top of each block. If you don't get this
whole drawing finish, there might be something
that you want to, you can work on later on, finish it off in your own time. But I'll try and show
you all the little bits of it so you know
what you're doing. Okay. There we go. Okay. Moving right along, guys. You've been going really well. We've actually been going
for like 15 minutes, so you've only got
ten minutes left. The next obvious
thing for me that I can see in this picture
is this whole tree. We've got this awesome like
little tree right here. So how are we going
to draw this trade? Do you guys have any ideas? I know Jason crazy, I only ten minutes to go. We're just going to draw it. That's right. So if
you guys have a look, the tree almost as an
almost in line with the fence that the side
of the fence here. So we're just going to
come up from there. We're going to start off. See, it's actually goes
taller than the house. So we're gonna go up and you'd
start off with the trunk. So you just start off
with a line going up. I'm going to sort of
figure out, okay, I've got to, I've got branches. In fact, I wanna do this. I want to do a really
basic shape of the tree. Then I'm gonna kinda
go, okay, cool. We've got these
branches coming out. And trees. I don't know if you
know this about trace, but trees always
gets smaller as they get down to the
leaves at the end. So they start off really FET, FET trunk and branches gets smaller and smaller
down to the twigs. And then what I'm gonna do for
the texture on the leaves, I'm actually going to
do just little circles. Okay? So you just going to draw
heaps of little circles. You might do a little
squiggles or little lakes, like whatever you want, whenever you thinks the
right sort of thing. But I reckon it's like
a circle each tree. Okay? Once you've drawn a bet, you can kinda rub
out the basic shape. So we don't want that lift
on the interior much. Cope. And then don't forget
to do some circles in the middle tube is there's
branches facing towards us. Just sort of cover it up
and bronchus coming down. Alright. That looks kinda
like a tree, doesn't it? Sort of. Yeah. I guess it does
look like a tree. Okay.
12. 11. Drawing the grass: So we're just gonna look, we're going to start off with
are two types of graphs. So this is the, another idea about
perspective here guys. So when something
is close to you, it's way bigger, okay. And when something is
far away, it's smaller. So for the, for the grass
that's really close, we're just going to do
big long lines like this. Now I'm using my HB pencil. Just going to do long
lines like kinda flex. Guys see that and just notice the direction of the grass case. Some of the flux are
going like sideways. Some of them are
going straight up. Alright? Once you've got that emotion, that flicking, you
can do it faster. You can go like this. Try not to scribble, just do like one line at a time. Okay, So one long
flicker at a time. Nice. We probably need to
add a bit more shading underneath as well. But we can do that later. If you want to just
start off with those long grassy flux, then if we look at the
medium-sized grass, so this grass in here,
it's gonna be quiet, small, little, small flecks, but they're kind of
clumped together. Okay, So, so this still flex
because when you do a flick, you end up with a nice sharp at right at the
end of your flake. But it's like in a clump. So it's like maybe
like teen little bits together. Can you guys see that? Okay. So that's going
to take awhile to do all those little
medium grasses. And you notice how I'm at the bottom of some of
these clumps of grass. It's quite dark, so we've got to add in some more
shading as well. So you just have to kinda
look at the picture and figure out where it's
dark and where it's light. Or dark patch over here. And the medium grass kinda
goes all the way up to the building to sort of going
in front of the building. Now can you see grass
that's really far away in the distance? Eureka. Kind of, but not really. I mean, you can sort of see it but you can't really
draw it like grass. So you just have to sort
of add it like texture. So it might even just be
some tone or even smudge. You can smudge it. You could do some dots that might
work for faraway graphs. Tiny little dots that can be really fun actually
doing keeps the dots. Okay, Let's have a look. If we look on our wrist seat over the rest of the picture, we're going to have
some more kind of medium clumps of grass here. With the shadow at the bottom. We've got some really fine
grass down the very bottom, but you don't really
need to draw that.
13. 12. Drawing the sky: That's fine. The last thing I want to show you guys
is how to do the sky. The sky is really about
heaps of smudging. Okay, so just let me zoom out a bit so you can
see the whole picture. Hopefully that's where
it hold on a second. Hi, Yeah. Cool. So notice how in our sky we've got
kinda like our gray, like quite a gray moody
clouds over here. And then we've got some kind
of other bits over here. So we're just gonna do that
with our six B pencil. And we're just kinda like very, very lightly put some
tone and the sky. And then we're going to
smudge them with a finger. Okay? You really want to
smudge heaps and the sky. Especially when
you've got like a big rain cloud like this, you want to get
some pencil toned down and then just go
nuts on the smudging. See that, see how it's gone. Really nice and soft and gray. Because clouds are
really pretty well. Soft. They're not like really
hard lines are really nice. They don't stand out much. Yeah, there we go. That's starting to
be good. So then I can just kinda
keep building up. Building up over there. Okay. It's fine to leave some of
it like unfinished as well, like that kind Parkinson they
mostly white if you want, and just looks like a sort
of a cloudy day over here. Obviously, I haven't
really drawn all the details through here. You got like all these
hills and you've got like all these little
clumps of grass around here so you can keep adding in. Just like I never noticed, is like a second
little gate over here. Cross. You can add that in. It's up to you how much
detail you can add in. The windows that are up here on the house is like another like a side
door happening there. Okay. So those are things that
if you want us to be more time working
on it, you can.
Joe McMenamin, Artist - Illustrator - Teacher
