From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
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Light and shadow
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
Light and shadow
- So when I'm looking for shapes of lights and darks in a landscape, I'm often trying to map those shapes out. This can sometimes be called shadow mapping, where you're just looking for the darkest areas that form an interesting pattern within the scene. So when I look at this scene here of this range of different trees and shrubs what I start to do, because I haven't got any really distinguishable lines. I've got this one line, this one diagonal on the left hand side and maybe a little one on the right hand side. But apart from that, it's more a difference in tone that I'm looking at. The differences in the lights and darks to add interest to my sketch. So here I'm just using the fiber tip pen and a fine line pen and then working between the two. Because I've got reflection in the water, often the tones are compressed, so then they're not as dark or as light. It more looks like just one single tone, especially when I'm blurring my eyes and looking at the view. So I've now got this…
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