Hi, Tom here with my new Circle Line Art School
video, How to Draw a Landscape,
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my earlier videos, the first step in this
drawing is to draw an arch for a bridge that
we're going to have in the foreground,
now we can add a line to the left at the
top of the bridge, and this will show the
width, the width of the bridge, and now if
we draw another arch, copying the first
arch, then we've got both sides of the
arch bit of a bridge, the next thing we
can do is draw a line along here to show
the edge of the river and then just add
another line on the other side of the
arch, now if we look at the first arch
and find the top, we can draw a line from
the top of this point, and this will be
the height of our bridge, we can repeat
this on the other side of the arch, now
from this line we can draw the front side
of the bridge, once you've got one side
of the bridge, then you just need to copy
that on the other side of the bridge, now
we can draw a curve line either side of
the bridge for the banks of the river,
next we can add a height to the back and
the front of the bridge, now I think I'll
add a curve road that gets wider as it
comes towards us, coming towards the
foreground,
now, as the river snakes away, it's going to get
narrower as it goes towards the horizon
I will add a hill here, going towards the
left and the river can continue beyond
the hill going into the distance, we can
now extend the road towards the right,
I think I'll give the road a curve too,
maybe going up a bit of the hill as well,
and again, like the river, it needs to get
narrower as it snakes away, we could add
a side of a hill here, now if you imagine
that road going over a hill, it would go
down the other side which we can't see
and then it would probably pop up
somewhere else a bit lower down towards
the left in this drawing, so the road
doesn't continue in a straight line over
the hill, it's sort of disappears for a
while and then when it pops up it's
slightly to the side, to the left, in this
drawing, now we've got the basic
structure to our landscape drawing, we
could add a thickness to the walls of
the bridge here...
and erase some of the lines that we no longer need,
I think I'll move this line on the left
of the bridge, at the top, just a bit, so
that we can see the other side of the
bridge more clearly, I'll add a faint
line along the side of the bank here to
show where it changes direction,
and now I could add a second line along the side
of the river itself, this be useful later
to show the sort of sparkly little bit
of white paper that hasn't got tone on
it, to show the light in the river, now I
can just draw in the reflection of the
bridge here in the water and maybe add a
few more hills into the distance...
in the foreground on the right I'll draw
a tree here, just a simple tree trunk at
first, with a few simple branches at the
top and then just sketching in a loose
shape, starting the tree bit smaller than
I think it will go,
if you draw a tree too big, I think
it's quite how to make a smaller
again, but it needs to be quite large
because it's quite near us in this
landscape...
and now on the right here, I
can just add a row of some bushes and
make them tonally quite dark,
for this drawing I'm using a 4b pencil a
paper blending stump and an eraser, if
you don't have a blending stump for
smudging, an eraser can also do this, now
it's time to add the tone for the
drawing, the shading, I'll start by
shading the really dark tone under the
bridge and that will be the darkest tone
in the drawing I should think...
I'll make sure there is a high tonal
contrast in the water, because that will
enable me to get the slightly watery
effects, just using the pencil that I'm
using, a 4B pencil, I'll add some
shadows to left of the tree and left to
any of the other things I drawing this picture...
I will add in some
trees in the distance and I want some sort
of patches of light and dark and maybe
in the foreground I'll add some taller
grasses and in the background I'll just
make sure I smudge it a little bit and
make sure the marks in the background
are quite tiny, quite small, we don't
really need to know all the time what
the marks are, they just need to be
roughly the right sizes,
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Drawing by Tom McPherson
I hope you find this drawing useful for
your own drawings, thank you so much for
watching and I'll post a new video next Saturday!