How to Draw a Mountain Scene with Northern Lights

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Welcome back everyone to an oil pastel drawing of the northern lights! This was a suggestion that I had gotten on facebook after asking what sorts of drawings everyone would like to see and that one sparked my interest. After searching around for some images, I decided to sort of keep it a bit more bob ross styled but with my own touch of course.

I started this one off with drawing in the mountains. I didn't have to worry about the sky because the paper was black to begin with and that is the color that I wanted the sky to be. It also makes it a lot easier to draw in the mountains with having a black background.

With drawing in the mountains, I started off with a pencil sketch to see where I wanted different details. and general placement of the objects overall. I then got myself going with the oil pastel. I used straight white for the highlighted side of the mountain. I also didn't press too hard on the pastel so that it would give it nice break look so that it would leave a nice texture for it. For the shadowed side, I used a very dark blue and then applied the white oil pastel on top of it to bring out a lighter color.

For the Northern Lights, I simply applied a very potent blue line followed by 2 more to create 3 lines all together. After applying some purple and green to give it added color, I took a blending stump and blended them towards the top of the page to help spread them to give them a better look. Later on I added a lot of white to really help bring them out more.

The trees were done with black oil pastels and did them in the traditional way that I normally do pine trees. I have quite a few videos that explain how to draw in this way. I also decided to add a bit of white oil pastel to make it look like a fresh snowfall just for the added effect.

On the foreground, I literally went to town with that oil pastel just creating different textures and such just to help create a nice area to finish things off. I didn't spend too much time with that. but In the end I think that this one came out really well.

Thank you everyone for watching and I hope you enjoyed the drawing!

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