Drawing #2: Schenley Park
For a something more nature-like, I reccomend drawing some scenery like this beautiful photo taken in Schenley park. For these drawings, I will be omitting the poles which are seen along the pathway, since I think it takes away the focus from the trees.
For this drawing, you will need a graphite pencil, an eraser, and a sharpener if your pencil is not mechanical.
Estimated drawing time: 20 - 40 minutes
For this drawing, you will need a graphite pencil, an eraser, and a sharpener if your pencil is not mechanical.
Estimated drawing time: 20 - 40 minutes
Next, I decided to finish up the bridge. I added another line in the top part of the bridge, and added simple lines on the bottom part of the bridge.
I would also like to point out, I recommended not including poles in your drawings. Here, I clearly forgot about my own rules, so please ignore the pole in the rest of this tutorial. |
For the beginner level, you can use practically any kind of material to draw with (crayons, pencils, I don't reccomend markers since we will be blending colors here).
For this drawing, I reccomend the following colors: Green Yellow-Green Yellow Orange Red Light blue Grey In this photo, I'm basically showing where I colored in the green, however, where you draw the green doesn't have to be an exact copy of the original photo or this tutorial. |
Next, I began focusing on the right side of the photo, adding a shadow texture to the ground part (which is what the lines are). You could try out any shading technique with more techniques shown underneath the Drawing Techniques tab. Don't forget to add some leaves in this step, and to reflect everything in the lake with a soft outline.
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Now, we will begin shading everything else. Start off with the trees on the right, and I reccomend using a circular shading technique as it looks best on trees. Focus more on shading the "ground" part in this step, as the trees cover a lot of light from reaching the ground. Make sure to reflect this in the lake.
After this step, you are technically finished, but I reccomend continuing the tutorial and coloring in the drawing, as it truly brings the drawing together. |
For coloring, I reccomend the following colors:
Green Light Green Yellow Orange Red Sky Blue Olive Green - tip: if you don't have a color like olive green or sky blue, mix some regular colors together to try and achieve some unique colors! So for olive green, mix regular green with a bit of yellow and brown. And for sky blue, softly mix regular blue with some white. And for the first step, color in green in the areas as seen in the photo to the left. |
At this step, I colored in the remaining parts that were not colored, either because I forgot or because I wanted to color in some parts first (such as the trees on the right being colored in before the slope). I also reccomend lighting going in with yellow all around the drawing, as it makes the colors pop out even more.
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After coloring the sky, finish off with a light shade of green in the lake, and for this drawing I got a bit creative and did straight lines, as seen on the photo to the left. You can simply lightly shade green if you do not want to replicate this lined look, but after this final step, you are done!
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