Moonlit Waterfall

This is a tribute drawing I did for Pinsetter1991 aka Andrew in response to his waterfall drawing.

I did this drawing and divided it up into 3 parts. The sky and trees, the rocks, and the water below. By dividing the picture into 3 areas it made it easier to draw. This was mostly drawn with pastels.

With dividing the drawing into 3 key areas I was able to start the drawing very quickly and draw it very efficiently and effectively. I started off with the rocks and quickly go over the entire area with a brown/orange color to do something I like to call the "greatest common color" Whatever this color happens to be in this case brown, I shade the entire area that color and work from there. From that point, I add highlights and shadows and rocks start to form. I do not use pastels for highlights and shadows, instead, I used charcoal and white charcoal. These for some reason really apply to the paper very well and much better than pastels would.

The next part of the drawing I worked on was the sky and tree area. This was easier to do that the rocks since there was much less detail that was needed. I started by erasing out the blue that I used to create the night sky so I could more easily apply the color of the trees. I applied trees as I saw fit and didn't over do it. I used cotton balls for smoothing out the sky portion of the drawing.

The water was quite difficult to do because of the water ripples. But then I was able to draw then im quite well after using charcoal. It ended up looking quite nice.

The music is by Kevin MacLeod and it is called Cattails.