Waterfall drawing pencil easy1/3/2024 Here is the step that is the most exciting and where each artist’s interpretation immerges. Your drawing will take on these qualities of abstractness, lifelessness and looking flat. This is the analysis stage that helps me grasp what I am looking at.ĬAUTION: Do not create your final drawing from this stage. I can do sketches at this point to identify the most prominent waves, I can map out my values for my composition. I have reduced this into something I can grasp. I have broken this complex image into simple shapes and values. Now it doesn’t look overwhelming – I can now study the movement of the waves, the shapes, and the values. I am abstracting and simplifying the image. I posterized the image (a Photoshop feature) to reduce the number of values seen and turned the photo into grayscale. I cropped the image so we can concentrate on the water reflections. We can identify ‘clues’ that will help us draw the characteristics of water that makes it…water.īy changing our focus to just the water and looking at it in an “abstract” format, it will allow us to analyze just what we are “SEEING”. By breaking this image down into smaller sections. This step is to analyze what we are seeing in the image. We KNOW all of this from the first step – observation. We know the swan is swimming in the water and we know we are seeing the swan’s reflections in the water. We know it is water, we know it is fluid, transparent and reflective. The swan is so simple and I’m itching to draw it, but oh that water and reflections! How do we begin? The Analysis Aleksandra captured a beautiful swan swimming. This “understanding” what you are seeing, is the power of observation. Feel the textures, feel the wind on your face, or the spray of water at your feet. Do research…look at various reference photos at different angles to help you “understand” what you are looking at. You need to mentally envision walking through your scene. If you didn’t take the photograph -you have to take additional steps to ‘become connected” to a scene. You can’t see what is tucked behind an object. One of these short-comings is It flattens the view to 2-dimensions. We need to be aware of the limitations of using photographs. Not all of us have the opportunity to draw plein air (on location). To experience a landscape you must visually, mentally, emotionally and physically observe it. The more you see, the more you understand.” It is amazing what you see when you really start “looking”. I began to open my eyes and look around me. I got my first digital camera and started to take photos of everything. The Power of Observation.īefore I got brave enough to pick up my pencil in 2002, I spent a couple years just looking. That’s a pretty tall order, but I think we can accomplish it. The goal of this lesson is two fold – we are going to explore how to draw water, but more importantly we are going to review the process of observation, analysis and interpretation, the “tools” that will allow us to draw any subject matter, no matter how complex. But without the tools to understand how to draw water, we become overwhelmed as to the task of how we’re suppose to draw it!! All those ripples, waves, reflections….oh my!! So we put our favorite scenes away, hoping to be braver another day. Our water landscape possibilities are endless.
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