Waterfall Mountain Sketch

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Supplies:

Faber castell pencils:

4H 2H HB 2B 3B 4B

Paper mate tuff stuff eraser
sharp needle point
blending stumps

90IB hardbound sketch book.

Drawing duration: about 3 hours.



So here is a sketch that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I have been looking on the web for a reference picture to draw but could not find one that I have liked. So what I just decided to draw this one straight out of my head. Drawing out of my head is something I have been practicing for a while now and it has taken me a while to get used to it. Once you get the shading down, you can draw any sort of convincing composition.

So I started the landscape drawing like I usually do. I outline where the mountains are going to go and then I start working on the sky. I started with a 2h pencil and used the weight of the pencil to shade it in. Then using a cloth, I blended everything smooth.

I have a few erasers that are very fine that I used to start erasing out some clouds. Once the clouds were erased out, I would go back in with a pencil again to add some shadow and detail to them.

Next step is the mountains. I usually leave one side of the considerably darker than the other to show dynamic lighting effect. It helps to convince the viewer that light is effecting the landscape. I will also make very dark lines going down the mountains to show texture on them to help bring them out.

The next portion was the waterfall. This one started out with a light sketch of where I wanted it to be and then I started to plant some rocks on both sides of it. Shading the rocks took me a long time to do. I worked then and shaded them with a lot of texture to make them as lifelike as I could make them.

The last portion of the drawing I just decided to add in a few bushes and eventually a tree. The tree really helped to balance out the overall drawing in the end which really made the drawing come together.


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