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Landscape Pencil Drawing: Simple Tips You Should Know

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landscape pencil drawing

Landscape pencil drawings are nature drawings that include mountains, rocks, and trees. Some landscape pencil drawing tips are listed below:

  • Use sandpaper to rub your drawings to create realistic textures. Use dark and light contrasts to create nooks and crannies in your rock drawings.
  • Draw majestic mountains and hillsides in your drawing. The directional pencil strokes and scribbles can use to draw trees and mountains.
  • Draw scribbled, not stylized, and use contour lines for deciduous trees. Use paper stumps for drawing trees in the distance. The paper stumps can also be used for drawing smooth, soft planes on rock drawings.
  • Draw a light outline of the trunk, branches, and leaves for your complicated tree drawings. Use contour strokes for darker and lighter passages.
  • Use deliberate, straight lines for drawing still water. Draw the stokes darker in water. Use fast strokes for foaming and showing bubbling waterfalls.

Try these simple drawing tips for your beautiful landscape drawings.

How To Create Effects Using Color Pencils? Find out

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Color pencils

Color pencils create fun and versatile drawings. There are many techniques out there which can create magic. These techniques can range from pressing hard on a page to applying oil over drawing. Different types of color pencil techniques include the following.

  • Stippling: Stippling refers to drawing a large number of dots over the paper, and is drawn closer or far apart.
  • Hatching: Hatching refers to drawing a series of parallel lines in the same direction.
  • Cross-hatching: Cross-hatching refers to drawing a series of parallel lines, and drawing another series of parallel lines in other direction over the top of first drawing.
  • Back and forth: A simple drawing pattern that is usually done by kids. This technique is excellent to fill in different areas with a solid color.
  • Scumbling: Scumbling refers to drawing continuous circular patterns on paper. 
  • Burnishing: A technique of drawing thin layers of color with the back and forth techniques.

Start creating beautiful creative drawings using different color pencil techniques.

How to Prevent Pencil Smudges? Tips You Should Know

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Pencil Smudging is one issue that every artist has to face while drawing. Pencil or graphite is such an amazing and easy medium to use. You make a mistake? No worries. Just erase and draw again. As two sides of a coin, it has it’s own down-side to it: smudging.

So how to prevent pencil smudges? With little tips and care, it is possible to prevent pencil smudges and preserve your sketches.

Firstly, let your dominant hand lead. That means, start drawing from the upper left corner if you’re a right-handed person and move your way down. This will prevent hand smudges while drawing.

Secondly, place a clean sheet of paper under the drawing hand. By doing this, you cannot only avoid smudging but also protects your drawing from oils in your skin.

Thirdly, make use of a mahl stick. It is basically a slender stick used by artists since centuries. It is used to rest the drawing (painting) hands rather than resting it on the canvas.

Finally, make use of a spray fixative. It prevents the drawing from getting smudged and preserve it for longer period.

Follow these simple tricks to prevent pencil smudges and hold on to your art work forever.

How To Improve Pencil Drawing Skills

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Pencil drawing skills

Pencil drawing is the fundamental skill required to get success as an artist. Some pencil drawing techniques to improve your skill are given below.

Master the pencil grip: Knowing how to hold a pencil is the first thing you need to learn. Use the side of lead instead of using tips. When covering a large area, hold the pencil perpendicular to the lines. Similarly, when drawing details, hold the pencil parallel to lines. When drawing intricate details, use the point of a pencil.

Learn the shading process: When shading with pencils, work as patches. It will give shape for drawing.

Keep control of the line weight: It will help to separate objects from one another. A simple tip is: always check and recheck your work. Also, be careful about the pencil smudges.

Understanding and following these simple tips will help you create beautiful pencil drawings.

How to preserve your pencil drawings

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Nothing is more painful than seeing the drawing that you’ve been working so hard on going to waste due to a lack of proper preservation. Learning how to preserve your artwork is just as important as drawing itself. 

Let’s see some ways to preserve your pencil drawings.

Parchment paper: Use parchment paper in between two drawing sheets. This waxy paper will help to preserve your drawing for a long time.

Lay your drawings flat: Store your drawing horizontally, thus preventing rolling corners and wrinkling of the paper.

Fixatives: Use a matte or glossy finish spray fixative to coat your drawing to prevent it from possible future damage. Be careful to use the fixative in a properly ventilated area.

Avoid frequent handling: If you want to archive your artworks, avoid handling them now and then. Preserve them in a practically inert space with lesser interactions with humidity and sunlight.

Use clear bags or laminations that allows your work to be seen without being removed from the protective covering. All techniques have pros and cons. However, it’s always better to resort to one such technique to make your artwork live longer.

Here is a tip to hold the pencil correctly while drawing

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Holding the pencil is the first step that should be mastered if you want to become an artist. The way in which you hold the pencil places a huge role in how the final work turns out.

Artist Bobby Chiu has given an important tip regarding the same in one of his YouTube videos. He recommends that holding the pencil like a charcoal can lead to some great results. The idea is to draw using the side of the lead rather than using the point. This can help to keep the pencil sharper for a longer period and also give you a texture that is usually not achieved.

“When covering large areas, I shade with my pencil perpendicular to the line I’m drawing to get wide, soft lines. For details, I hold my pencil parallel to my lines to get sharp, narrow marks. The only time I use the point is when I’m working on intricate details,” he notes.

So get going and try this out the next time you are scribbling.