If the hill is up close I like the vertical strokes to indicate blades of grass. I start with a light green, add some dark green, olive green, browns, and even some yellow. When doing the grass and hills I like to overlay different kinds of green together. Also, I added some of the light green color to the background hills. Using light green vertical strokes on the closest hill to resemble blades of grass. I started with the grass on the hills up close, carefully going around the flowers at first. Once your tree is semi-finished, it is time to start coloring everything else. Shade the tree, but not too completion, it will be finished later on. Keep working on the tree until you have a good idea of where everything will fall on the page. Start with a dark green color, color them in little green curly lines.Ĭolor them a little more using a lighter green, drawing over the branches when the leaves are in front of them. Don’t forget that the shadow falls away from the sun.Ĭolor in the leaves to indicate where they are going to be placed. I also added some shadows for the pine trees in the back.Īfter I worked with some black on the tree trunk, I did some dark brown, then light brown.
After that I would come back to the tree and finish it to the end as well.įor the next few steps, I was just shading in the tree trunk. Then I would proceed with the rest of the drawing, coloring everything until it’s done. Using light strokes.Īlso at this point I have made a decision to color the tree in lightly, just to make it more defined. Using a black pencil, I shaded the side opposite of the where the sun is coming through. It is time to start coloring it all in! I started with the tree. I thought that upper left would be the sun position for me. Now it is time to decide where your light is coming from. Also in the very front I added some flowers that grow close up.Īfter adding a few more flowers in the front, I felt like my sketch was complete. I wouldn’t bother with individual leaves, just bunches work well. From each larger branch make the smaller ones come out in a V shape.įinish up the main branches, and erase the hills, mountains and bushes that the branches are blocking.Īdd bunches of leaves. You can erase the mountains behind the branches a bit later.Īdd several large branches. Begin indicating where the largest branches will be. Look on the lower left corner of the sketch above. I start by indicating the area where the roots meet the ground. Next comes the big tree in the foreground.
#Simple landscape sketch how to#
To see how to draw a simple tree take a look at the picture below.Īdd another little roof of another house, and a few more trees to complete the town. Start the trees around the first house, as well as behind it. When working with colored pencils I find it easier to think about the small details ahead of time. Technically it’s more of a roof top then a house.Īdd the little church tower in the back, with a triangular roof on top. Then add the roof line extending over and running parallel to the ground. I start with a simple geometrical shape, a triangle, and two lines going down. Again, the bushes are just curly little shapes.īehind those bushes there is a house. Like behind the second hill in the picture above. And a little group of pine trees on the hill beyond.Īdd some bushes in the foreground. The hills you would be standing on if you were there looking out. It is time to erase the horizon line and replace it with some background hills, like in the photo above.Īlso, I thought my mountains were too small, so I drew bigger ones in the back, and will make the smaller mountains into a layer of large pine trees.
The trees are far away and all they look like is wavy little hills. Draw a few mountains in the background.ĭraw little bunches of trees below the mountains.
It will be erased and covered by hills later, so just a nice light line. Start by approximating where your horizon will be. These are the pencils I used for this project: PRISMACOLOR PENCILS (I love the extra large pack, but there are smaller size packs available) and this is the paper: Strathmore Vellum Bristol Paper Pad. This just gives you a general idea about how to draw a landscape, where you put trees, houses, hills, bushes and flowers in your picture is completely up to you! The most important thing is to have fun with it, and not give up. Also, please note that you absolutely should change things around. If you click on the smaller images they will pop up larger for you. I would like to note that I had to enhance the photos of the pencil sketches so you could see them better, that’s why the lighting seems different on all of them. ***This page contains affiliate links.*** Here is how to do a simple color pencil landscape drawing. I love how much control you have with a colored pencil. Color pencils have got to be one of my most favorite mediums.
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