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Time to throw some shade! Start with the focal point of your drawing, adding the details you see and shading them accordingly. Then once you have that down and you’re feeling comfortable with drawing landscapes, you can start to add more complicated elements. When you’re first starting out, just focus on the essential parts. This keeps your composition from feeling too muddled. To simplify your drawing, you’ll want to edit some things out, like that stray bush or the distracting telephone line. Step 2: Simplify the scene as you goĪs you’re drawing, look at the landscape with an editor’s eye. How big was the rock compared to the stalk? How many rocks fit between the right side of the tree and the edge of the page? These are the kinds of questions you’ll want to ask as you layout your drawing, and having a focal point will help spark them.Īt this point, just sketch the outlines of objects on the page. I picked Joshua trees in the foreground for the focus point here.Īfter sketching the trees in pencil, I was ready to think about the rocks behind them. Once you’ve done that, you can start filling in the space around it. Step 1: Start with the focal pointĭecide what your focal point is, and draw that first. Trust me, this simple starting technique changes everything. This will give the rest of your drawing something to relate to, and it’ll ensure the scale of the landscape is correct. It can be one plant, building, bird - anything about the scene that strikes your fancy. Here’s the magic rule: When starting your landscape drawing, select a single subject in your composition (ideally something in the foreground) to focus on.

But one key principle goes a long way in taking your landscapes from “meh” to majestic (and it works in any medium!). Of course, anyone who’s ever put pencil to paper knows that’s not necessarily easy to do. Whether it’s desolate fields or a bustling metropolis, we have a natural desire to capture the world around us. As long as people have been making art, the landscape has been part of it.