Chapter 13
Representing the Natural World in Your Drawings
In This Chapter
Capturing the various moods of the sky
Drawing lifelike trees and flowers
Putting your nature-drawing tools to the test with two projects
Few drawing subjects have more power to captivate your viewers than nature. Nature is alive and exhilarating with its frequent changes from fierce and unforgiving to gentle and welcoming. Every part of the world, including the one you live in, offers its own exotic reason why you should keep your drawing supplies close at hand whenever you step outside.
Drawing natural phenomena like skies, trees, and flowers is extremely rewarding, but it also poses some unique challenges. For example, how do you draw a sky when it’s constantly changing? How do you represent something ephemeral like clouds? How do you make a believable drawing of a tree when its intense tangle of limbs is almost completely obscured by a million tiny leaves?
In this chapter, you discover answers to these questions and many more. Here, we show you how to embrace nature by re-creating it with your pencil and sketchbook.
