In this entry into her drawing lessons series, landscape pencil artist Diane Wright discusses various techniques designed to help you “see” what you’re drawing by abstracting it. Drawing Lessons: Techniques to Help you “See” Every artist has felt the frustration of getting “stuck” trying to draw the shape of an object. By abstracting the object, […]
Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching Sketching is the fundamental building block for an artist. It is used to develop a personal visual vocabulary. Sketches are visual exercises in problem solving and provides the opportunity to: hone your observational skills exercise and develop mark-making skills encourage selectivity experiment with new techniques and expressive possibilities create compositions […]
Learn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright’s drawing lessons series. Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures So what is texture? We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but how do we translate what we feel into what we see. The type of surface and […]
Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes What gives objects form and shape? Light and the shadows it creates. Since graphite creates only shades of gray, values are all we have to represent light and shadow. They are also the most expressive and effective tools we have. In this entry to Pencils.com’s stable […]
In this entry into Diane Wright’s drawing lessons, Diane explores the different types of marks you can make using a pencil. The anticipation of making that first mark on a blank sheet of paper for me is exciting. Each mark builds upon the last one and soon the image begins to evolve and appear on […]
Grass and weeds are some of the most challenging nature elements to capture in a landscape drawing. It is seldom the focal point of a landscape, but if not rendered correctly, can negatively impact the rest of the scene. Grass is a supporting actor of the presentation. It should mirror the feeling of the scene, […]
The most versatile pencil point is the chisel point. The top sharp edge can be used for finer markings, details and creating fine lines. The flat angled plane can be used for shading. In this entry into our drawing lessons series, we’ll be looking out how to create a chisel point. Drawing Lessons: How to […]
Drawing Lessons: Drawing Rocks Here is the reference photo in color that we will be using for the rest of this drawing lessons entry. A grayscale photo can help to match the tones, but color helps in the details. Diane Wright is a very talented artist that will be posting more of her tutorials on Pencils.com […]
In this entry into our drawing lessons series, Diane Wright details how she recreates skies and clouds using a pencil. Drawing Lessons: Drawing Skies and Clouds STEP 1 – CROSS-HATCHING I use a loose-hold hand position when creating the cross-hatching. I find the just weight of the pencil on the paper will create […]
Greetings Studio 602ers! Over the next few weeks, Pencils.com featured artist Diane Wright will be sharing several drawing lessons that cover the basics of creating art with a pencil . If you aren’t familiar with Diane or her work, check out this interview featuring the Queen of Landscape Pencil Art herself and, without further ado, let’s […]
