Sketching Techniques for Artists

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LANDSCAPES

Landscapes are entire worlds into which we can get blissfully lost. When a view takes your breath away, it’s with pencil and pen, brush and paint, that we can catch the elusive and translate it onto the page. Creating a landscape is to see to infinity in a sketchbook, to stop time, and capture distance with a pen.

LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION

When sketching landscapes, composition is of utmost importance. We may not have a piece of architecture with linear perspective to draw our eye in, and there might not be an obvious center of focus. This makes the idea of composition even more important. Use composition like any other tool ...