Paul Priestley here this video is part 5 of my series of art tutorials for beginners on
learning to draw. In this tutorial I'm going to show you simply how, by using 3 tones,
you can make landscape really three-dimensional. You'll be doing lots of shading, delicate drawing,
bold dramatic drawing. The techniques you'll learn can not only be used to draw landscape, but any
driving requires depth and three-dimensionality, such as a still life. Amazing, one technique at
least two applications. Grab your pencils, we've got a draw! In this video I'm going to be showing
you how to create a landscape, just using three tones to create the depth in the picture. An HB
pencil which is quite a hard pencil, a normal pencil, a 4b pencil a soft pencil, and an a
8b pencil which is a very soft pencil. In the top right hand corner of my paper I'm going to draw a
rectangle. In the first square I'm going to fill it in using my very hard, no very soft pencil.
Second square I'm going to fill in with my mid-tone pencil. The third square I'm going
to fill in with my HB pencil so I'm just going to label these dark, mid-tone, light tone, highlight,
these are tones. So I'm going to sketch the landscape. Now the idea is simply this,
everything that disappears into the distance gets lighter, paler, smaller.
I'm using my light tone. I'm going to switch to my mid-tone pencil. Hmm
I'm going to bring my dark tone. You can see already that the different lines suggest that this
is closer to us, than that. Now the idea is that anything that I draw in the background here, is in
the light tone. Anything in the middle ground is the mid-tone, anything in the foreground I use the
dark tone. So imagine I'm going to draw some hill, some trees on the hill in the background here. I'm
just going to do a very simple wiggly line and then fill it in with my met my light tone. Now
you can see here that I've just completed that, I've just filled it in with my light tone. I might
want some more trees over on the hill that's even further away so I make meeting smaller.
Now imagine that I might have fields over here, I might have a hedge. The hedge starts here,
it's going to be very, very light as it starts coming down here I'm pressing very much,
very slightly harder you see so and it's also going to slightly wider. Now,
imagine here I might have say a ploughed field.
I might have for example over here another little hedge,
now all I'm doing with my light toad is just running my pencil over the edge,
just rubbing it very very gently that's all I'm doing I'm just suggesting.
Now imagine now in the middle ground here, I have some trees. Now these trees are little bit bigger
than the trees further away, so they're going to be taller. But they're also going to be darker,
so I'm going to draw these with my mid-tone. So I'm just going to suggest a few tree trunks
and maybe a few little lines just coming off,
and then I'm just going to draw a little wiggly line along here. But you'll notice it's quite.
I'm going to shade this now using two tones my mid-tone and my light tone.
Okay, I've done that and I'm going to nail suggest a little bit of shadow of a mudding light coming
down in this direction, so I'm just putting a little bit of shadow underneath here in my
mid-tone. Now you already notice that these areas here, because they're drawn with the mid-tone,
look as though they're in front of the areas behind, because of difference in tone. But also
the difference in size size is also important in this respect. So imagine I might have for example,
a hedge running across here, it's very very small as you can see and again I shade it with
my mid-tone. Imagine I've got a hedge coming down across here, so I might, I might bring this right
down here and we bring it right up to where my dark tone is. So, I'm going to press on a little
bit harder here, make it a little bit rougher up here and then gradually it disappears almost to
nothing. You see it's getting bigger. Imagine this is a ploughed field, now I start here,
quite lightly, but as I get further down I'm going to make it darker. So I'm just going to do this.
You'll notice as the lines have come down here
they've got darker and stronger and the same applies over here.
So, you're already seen out my fields, difference in tone brings them forward. Okay,
so now imagine that we have a tree here, but this tree is in the foreground. This
tree I'm going to draw now with my dark tone and you'll notice that the dark tone,
the tree is so much bigger, my tree trunk I'll start tree trunk round about here.
So, I've got my basic tree drawn, but look already at the difference in scale between
these two and this implies this is so much closer than that. Now the first thing I need
to do is start adding my dark tone. Underneath here you can see where the tree trunk is,
this is going to be in shadow because the sun's shining across, so it's going
to be very dark here. So, I'm going to start pressing on and do my tree trunk.
Now one of the interesting things about putting this very dark tone here, is that you can
immediately see that these tree trunks beginning to start disappearing behind the tree. Underneath
the tree, this area here is foliage. Now imagine the foliage these are big clumps of foliage here,
the light is coming down to the bottom of this foliage is going to be very dark. So, I'm going to
again be using my dark tone, so I'm pressing on. But don't do it too neatly, it's got to be rough.
So you can see I've very roughly blocked in the dark areas of the tree. Now with the mid-tone,
I start just above and I'm pressing on, but not quite so hard this time.
And finally we just do a little bit of light tone as well.
Now you could also put detail on this and such like, but we not going to worry too
much about that for a moment. Now we go back to the foreground here,
if you want to draw grass, draw grass so that it grows up. So you're flicking up.
But as I come to about here I change pencil.
I might also just roughen this area up.
Err, I might have a little bit more shadow underneath here.
You can now see, quite clearly, that by using just three different pencils,
three tones, dark tone, mid tone, light tone, change in size, so large, medium,
small. You can create a three-dimensional image very simply, just using three tones. The same
applies with if you're going to create a still life. The still life would be drawn in exactly
the same fashion, even though the distance between the foreground here and the background there,
may only be a few inches. You could still use exactly the same technique.