How to draw a landscape or a scenery picture: by Jan Kowalewicz

How to draw a landscape or a scenery picture

with Tria Markers
Jerzmianki Church in Poland
as an example by Jan Kowalewicz

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How to draw a landscape or a scenery picture: by Jan Kowalewicz

A general note...
We divide the process of drawing into three
phases. The first phase is drawing everything
linearly. In this phase we decide where all the
objects are, we set the composition, the frame
and the centre of the drawing. The second
phase covers making all the details, the third
the shadows.
When we plan a drawing, we have to remember
about a few features which are significant for a
good composition. These are: light, contrasts,
communication lines and intersection points of
perspective.

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Light
We have to think where the source of the light is.
We never draw objects along the line of the light.
In such a case the picture becomes flat and lacks
of depth.
Contrasts
Contrasts in the picture give the observer
dynamism and tension. Moreover, contrasted
objects look stronger. For example we use such
contrasts as:
- openwork solid
- horizontal vertical diagonal
- dark - light
- sharp smooth (texture of objects)
- heights depressions

Communication lines
These lines help to organize the space in the
process of drawing and reception as well. They
lead our eye into the depth of the picture, show
us far background. Therefore, it is important to
put them into the composition
Intersection points of perspective
Every time we want to form a geometrical
structure, e.g. a building, we need to set the
intersection points of perspective. We have three
such points at most one for each dimension.
Points of depth and width are located on the line
of the horizon. Point of height depends on the
frame and the composition.
- horizontal vertical diagonal
- dark - light
- sharp smooth (texture of objects)
- heights depressions
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Lets get it started! the first phase.

It is good to make the first stage of drawing

with the lightest hue. The picture is drawn by
CG 09 and CG 06 Tria Markers.
The first stage of drawing includes:
1: a line of the horizon
2: a human figure
3: a draft of main objects (remember about
the contrasts)
4: a draft of the background.

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Lets get it started! the first phase.

Pic.01. The first step set the composition; CG 09 and CG 06 Tria

Markers.

If we want to draw a scenery or a landscape,

it is crucial to start with the horizon line. At
the beginning, we draw the line in 1/3 or 1/4
of the paper-sheet. The higher you draw the
line, the more ground you have to fill with
grass, rocks etc. The picture is drawn as if
the observer would be standing at the same
level as the man drawn in the centre. For the
person who stands on the ground, the horizon
line goes through the head of any person (of
similar height) that is in sight and stands on
the same level. Everything what is above this
line, is higher than the observer; everything
that is below is smaller or lower.

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Lets get it started! the first phase.

Having drawn the horizon, we draw a human
figure.
We draw the human to give scale to the
surroundings. People in the picture are very
important objects for the composition,
especially when we draw architectural forms.
It is because any structures that are built by
human are used by people. If there are no
figures, the picture emanates with emptiness.

Pic.01. The first step set the composition; CG 09 and CG 06 Tria

Markers.

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Lets get it started! the first phase.

Contrast of objects:
Openwork of the tree and solid of the church

Pic.02.

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Lets get it started! the first phase.

Contrast of objects:
Heights and depressions

Pic.03.

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Lets get it started! the first phase.

Now we set the composition, keeping in mind
the contrast features mentioned
above (pic. 02., pic. 03., pic. 04.), in the
following order:
- form the body of the church,
- draft the frame of the tree in the foreground
- draft tree in the background
- draft the shape of the terrain
- draft barns and cottages

Pic. 04. Contrast of objects: horizontal - vertical

- set the line of far background forest

That is the end of the first phase. We have all
the objects settled. The frame and the
composition will not change any further.

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There and back again

the second phase.

The first thing we do now is making a decision

where the centre should be. It is not strict
geometrical middle of the paper-sheet.
However, it is near to it. The centre of the
picture is the place where the sketch is most
condensed with lines, most drawn and, at last
but not least, where the observer has to look
first.
From now on, we saturate the picture with
more and more details and lines up to the
darkest hues of colour we use according the
following scheme.

Pic. 05. Setting the centre of the picture

We start with CG 09 and CG 06 markers which

we put on all the picture with more or less the
same intensity. Than we use darker and darker
hues on more and more concentrated space of
the picture.
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There and back again

the second phase.
Saturation and giving details with CG 04 Tria
Marker using painting-brush tip.

Pic. 06.

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There and back again

the second phase.
Because of the specific character of marker
drawing technique, we start to bring shadows
before the end of the second phase. As we can
see adjacent (pic. 07.), at this stage we start
to use stains to give darker (CG 06) hues of
far background forests, the texture of stone
of the church, the clothes of the man and the
shadows.

Pic. 07. progressive saturation and details (CG 04); adding stains using
wide tip of the marker (CG 06)

The details in picture are drawn with

CG 04 marker to contrast them with the
background. It is important for the harmony
of the composition not to forget about all the
mess and stuff on the ground like rocks, grass,
roughness of the terrain.

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There and back again

the second phase.
The far background are almost finished. To
give an effect of deep space view, we leave
them drawn without many details and with
just the two lightest hues of our markers. It
is important to keep the contrast of light
(pic.09.). The darker stains give the light ones
a chance to shine.

Pic. 08. progressive saturation, details and stains using the marker CG
06 and CG 04

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There and back again

the second phase.

Pic. 09. progressive saturation, details and stains; marker CG 04 and 02

All the shadows have to go in one direction. In

this way we avoid the common mistake in which
the light goes from different sources at one
time. In our example we have the sun not too
high on our left. Long shadow of the church
covers the tree partially and lays on the path
where a small human figure is walking. Notice
that the head of that person is on the line of
the horizon. That gives us an impression of
scale and distance.
Finally we concentrate drawing with CG 02
marker mostly on the church and giving a few
lines with CG 01 marker just to show few of
its details. It is important to remember that
the shadows that are laid are darker then the
shade of not illuminated surfaces.

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Pic. 10. Final saturation and details; marker CG 02 and 01

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