Rough

Outdoor Scenes

Getting Started

To create a rough of an outdoor scene, you have to start by setting up a frame and a format.

1. With a felt pen, sketch the format (the outer frame) of your drawing, freehand, on the page.

2. Now, within this frame, sketch the horizon line.

3. Now sketch the characters.

4. Position the buildings and other elements of your scene.

Horizon Line

When you take a photograph standing on a beach or in the desert, the horizon line is approximately in the lower third of the picture. Starting with this horizon line, with just a few strokes you can evoke a sunset over a beach, a walk in the desert or across the ice … Of course, if you are looking down at the street from the 15th floor of a building (in a bird’s-eye view) ...