Drawing Easy Nature and Landscape with Pencil For Beginners

Drawing nature and landscape

Hey everyone welcome to another exciting art review. This time reviewing Jack Ham's drawing nature and landscape scenery. The introduction to this book is really good. Because Jack Ham talks about the focal area of laying out your composition. You'll find this in many art books however he goes a little bit further and talks about the tension, flow, and convergence. In a composition that is pretty good even almost philosophical talking about how our eye moves throughout a composition. I really think that this introductory section of the book is really indispensable and really added a lot to my understanding of the psychology of composition in artwork.

Drawing nature

How our eye enters a composition and how it moves through it due to flow and tension. Those other elements that you as the artist can control how the viewer interprets, how it follows, and how the viewer follows through on your work. Also, right from the outset ham emphasizes the feeling that should go into any artwork. As opposed to the subject feeling supersedes the subject. I'm just paraphrasing here's an interesting quote multiple changes in value can simulate detail that the imagination will supply. I mean man how true he talks about kind of avoiding beginners. Try to use realism a lot and focus on every single detail in away drawing. We see this I even see this in the galleries around.

Drawing about nature

Where I live you know everything is like photorealism. It doesn't leave anything to the viewer's imagination. Whereas just supplying the basic shapes and forms can leave so much to stimulate the viewer's imagination. That's really the viewer becomes a participant and not just a spectator of the artwork. You want to Kindle underlying this, you want to Kindle the imagination of your viewer. I mean so again almost on a philosophical level. You can kind of understand when you're reading Jack Ham's work. Why he went into the ministry and was kind of called. You know higher calling if you will because his. His prose in talking about artwork is at that level.

Drawing in nature

This little squiggly line is here. He's actually talking about if we were to interpret in a pencil line. A typical conversation that you might have with somebody. This is how you may interpret it. Maybe soft points in the conversation maybe this is a more animated or even argumentative section of a conversation. His section on trees is just awesome. You know from the simple line drawing trees to the more classical approach with a broken line or varied pressure. These tree diagrams remind me a lot of gorge bridge men's anatomy work. The broken lines with that kind of organic muscular feeling in the work and he says many of the old masters use this technique of drawing birds.

Drawing the nature

In their pencil work, you can really see it here and you can definitely see it here as he lays out a nice diagram of all the elements. In drawing a good treat including what I was mentioning before about the white space for the leaves. If are pop at you in the foreground just leave them white. You know it really gives that dimensionality to your tree. I mean this section is just really great time again in art books. We see the importance of the cube sphere, and cylinder and he also shows how basic forms in a shape. In this example a sphere can be represented as a rock. Outcropping a tree and a thundercloud a big cumulus cloud.

Drawing for nature

There is a very cool page his section on clouds is equally as superb. One really good lesson on these clouds in this cloud section is. How your go-to cloud is going to have a horizontal dark underline. Most of the time also a lot of nice tips. So, he really Jack Hamre ilish owes attention to detail and there. It is represented on how to draw these clouds and other aspects of nature. I mean this book is just full of tips and here's an interesting page showing a diagram of clouds based on elevation. All the way up to 35,000 feet so very cool. If you want to know technically the different types of clouds.

Drawing nature easy

You will see kind of like liturgical or scriptural themes in his work. Because remember he did leave the cartooning industry to study ministry mentions. The use of opaque white in dealing with things like wind or snow overlaying on an area. You can also H into the paper with a sharp blade as well. If you're working on the Bristol board for that same effect. Nice section on reflections and water based on the positioning of the subject matter. As far as perspective is concerned for shortening as well as the condition of the water. You know still water all these things; you may observe in nature. You're going to see represented in this book that drawing animals.

Nature drawing easy

It will help you out when you're out in the field and recording what you see in pencil and paper. The section on waves is as good as the one on trees and clouds to get the different aspects of waves. Including the breaking waves, he really gives almost an anatomy of the different waves. Sections of the wave the crest of the wave the thrust of this excellent illustration right here. The mist the aerated mist there's that thrusting section. The ovals of waves I mean just really, I would call it. The anatomy of a wave. It's really going to help out your water drawing. If you're taking up illustration look at that with the reflection of the moonlight on the water.

Drawing nature with pencil

Just excellent and lastly which is really helpful Jack Ham. So how do draw buildings so not only are you getting landscape and seascape instruction? In this book but how to draw buildings and how to approach drawing buildings in your landscape drawings with a different shading. The buildings are based on a very sketchy style or more of the broad-point pencil kind of choppy lines. As well as using the wider graphite. This is a great picture right here I hope you guys enjoyed this book review.

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