This week’s Tuesday Tutorial is the final tutorial in this series. We’ll be finishing a landscape on sanded paper. The focus for today is drawing the center of interest, but I’ll also touch on the final stages of the drawing. In case you missed them, links to the previous posts …
Welcome back to this Tuesday Tutorial on drawing a landscape on sanded art paper. We’re passed the halfway point now. Today, I’ll show you how to draw grassy hills. Links to the previous posts in this series are below. Draw a Gray Sky with Colored Pencils Finish a Sky in …
This week’s Tuesday Tutorial is the fourth tutorial in this series. Our topic today? Fixing a colored pencil mistake on sanded paper. If you missed the first three parts of this tutorial, you can read them at the following links. Draw a Gray Sky with Colored Pencils Finish a Sky …
Welcome to Part 3 in this tutorial. The first post in the series showed you how to draw a gray sky, and the second post described how I made adjustments to the sky after beginning to draw the landscape. This week I’ll show you how to begin to draw far distance …
This week’s Tuesday Tutorial picks up where last week’s left off. Last week, we drew a gray sky. This week I’ll show you how to finish a sky in colored pencil, and why that was necessary. The drawing for this tutorial was drawn on sanded art paper, but most of …
In a previous Tuesday Tutorial, I shared tips and suggestions for avoiding or fixing the mistakes I made using watercolor pencils. Today’s tutorial is all about painting with watercolor pencils. The painting I’m using for this tutorial is more of a study, but the method I used to paint it works …
Painting realistic landscapes in colored pencil. Part 2.
It can be difficult to accurately draw distance, can’t it? But creating the illusion of three dimensional space in a two dimensional drawing or painting is essential to creating a successful piece of art. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to learn how to create pictorial depth in even the most basic …
A previous tutorial described a couple of ways to choose the right colors before you put the first mark on your drawing. In that post, I mentioned a tutorial on drawing fading summer grass. That is my subject today. How to Draw Fading Summer Grass This sample is based on …
A while back, someone asked for tips on drawing faded, summer grass. I am planning to write a specific tutorial on that subject, and I’m hoping to use the plein air challenge to do the drawing. First, however, lets talk about finding the right colors for drawing summer grass. If …
