landscape: trees notes that can help you draw from nature
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Landscape: Trees
Notes that can help you draw from nature
Value Scale: Prepare the sky
• Create a 5 step value scale• Continuous tone is called a gradient• Use the side of your pencil to create a gradient
in the sky from a 4 value to a 0• Use a paper towel to blend the sky into the
paper• Use an eraser in a circular motion to erase out
the clouds. Do not use pencil outline
This is step one
Some fun Facts
Add the Tree
• Use fast gesture marks to draw the feeling of leaves and mass. Think of overlapping masses as leaf clusters.
• Do not try to draw individual leaves (except for the edges of the form).
• Leave spaces where the sky can show through or branches can be seen.
Add grasses at the base of the tree by
using a flick of the pencil to
vary the pressure.