Although the Lord caused many problems (not counting illness, crime, hunger, poverty, wars, corruption and Russian pop music), he still managed to create a good atmosphere of life on our planet. Land and water are often capricious, arranging mass sacrifices. But in some places it turned out quite well, you can even take a bunch of cute photos. But we can dig even deeper. In this lesson you will learn how to draw nature using a simple pencil. After that, you can take your drawing tools and safely go to a cozy place to create an indescribable masterpiece. Nature - symbolic name for everything that the eyes see. The only exceptions can be considered plastic or reality TV, the rest refers to one formal organism that controls life and has some strange plan for the production and provision of its vital functions. Like an ordinary stern boss, nature easily removes any office plankton, sometimes entire species, and, like any girl, loves whims and antics. The last critical days of this lady ended with the birth of Hitler, Hussein and Justin Bieber, which had a tremendous impact on the state of the planet as a whole. It may seem that nature is evil and impeccable, but in fact, it doesn’t care exactly the same way as a dog does. ethnic origin fleas in her fur. Suddenly it turns out that nature needs help, and some people firmly believe in this, while at the same time they cannot even protect themselves from the local punks. If it suddenly turns out that you are nature itself, then here are your privileges:
- You are beautiful because you are the very concept of existence.
- You exist, although you will never really understand it.
- You own all the valuable metals on the planet, which means you don’t suffer from a lack of funds.
- Your portraits hang in almost every house on every wall.
- There is no need to worry that you made a mistake, your mistake will either end up in a freak circus or in the red book.
- You can always have fireworks from volcanoes.
- You put a bolt on the theory of relativity, since you can be in all places at the same time.
- You can cure cancer, but no one will believe you.
Now take a pencil in your hands and try to draw Mother Nature step by step.
How to draw nature with a pencil step by step
Step one. We immediately highlight with lines a small pond with banks, and on the banks we will draw several trees with the same lines. A few circles in the water will serve to transform them into ducks. 
Step two. Below we draw tall grass, the circles slowly turn into birds. We carefully outline the edges of the banks with a thick line. 
Step three. In this step, turn your attention to the background beyond the horizon line. Let's draw some clouds there. 
Step four. Now draw small waves and shadows on the water, make the grass thicker, and shade the background. 
Step five. Sketch the rest of the missing places on the trees and ground, and then carefully finish the drawing by shading the ducks. 
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You've probably noticed that (depending on the lighting) clouds don't always look the same. If the light falls on the clouds from behind the viewer, then the clouds look more voluminous, illuminated, like pieces of cotton wool.
If light shines through the clouds at the viewer, the edges appear brighter and whiter, and the middle appears darker. Let's try to paint clouds with watercolors in this lighting.
We will not wet the entire sheet of paper at once. Using a wide brush, apply strokes of blue paint. It will be heaven. Where there remains a clean, dry sheet, there will be edges of clouds.
Let's paint over the middle dark color. Mix on the palette blue paint with black. And again - paint over inner part clouds, not reaching the edge, so that bright edges illuminated by the sun from within remain.
Use broad strokes to paint the sea horizontally. You should leave a light stripe on the horizon line. This can be done by leaving small strip not painted over, and then carefully blur the edges with water. Or (while the watercolor on the clouds is still wet) wipe the strip with a napkin or a clean semi-dry brush, removing excess color.
Highlights on the water are applied with white gouache after the watercolor has dried or drawn in advance with white chalk or a candle.
Let's draw the sky with pastels. And not just the sky—clouds! For dry art pastels, it is better to use special paper, sold in any art store.
For the upper part of the sky, take the lightest chalk and add touches of pink.
Rub the crayons to create a smooth transition of colors. A little lower we’ll lighten the sky with the lightest, almost white yellow and again we will grind the crayons.
Let's sketch out the approximate location with light lines cumulus clouds and start drawing the sky under the upper clouds.
Rub it with your finger and add a little light yellow chalk to indicate the light rays.
Using the lightest pink, we will begin to apply strokes to the top layer of the feather clouds.
You shouldn’t rub it too hard, just a little bit to show the light from under them; the main strokes with light pink chalk should remain.
The background has already been almost drawn, so we begin to draw cumulus clouds.
The color varies a little due to different lighting. Let's add some volume to the top of the cloud and yellow color in the bright part. We continue drawing the next part of the clouds.
Add a little white to the light left edge. In the foreground we will paint a heavy rain cloud mass in blue, distributing the volume with lighter and darker colors. IN Blue colour you can add a little pink.
It is not at all necessary to draw a bird, but if you want, then let it fly in the bottomless expanse of the sky above the huge clouds.
STEP 1 - shading
I use a free hold hand position when creating cross hatching. I find just the weight of a pencil on paper will create pencil strokes, light and consistent.
I'm shading 3 layers of graphite onto my paper using F lead. The first layer is located horizontally on the surface, with the next two layers diagonal.
STEP 2 - mixing
Using chamois wrapped around index finger, I mix graphite smooth. Chamois with the company, and even pressure. It may take several passes with chamois to create a smooth, even tone. Be sure to blend along the edges of the drawing area, as well as the building slabs, trees, and horizon areas. It's much easier to erase than to add the missing sections later.
Do not touch the surface of the paper with your fingers. It is at this point in the mixing process that smudges or fingerprints will magically appear. If they appear, they are very difficult to fix (unless they ended up in a cloud formation) and many times I will just have to start all over again!
I'll add 2 more layers of shading with 2H lead and mix with chamois again. This creates a nice smooth finish. I trimmed the edges of the drawing using a t-square ruler and a plastic eraser.
STEP 3 - LIFTING FROM THE CLOUD
I use a Mars plastic eraser with a chisel edge and erase my clouds in the sky. For light clouds I use Blu-tock and just drag it across the entire surface.
STEP 4 - DETAILS
Use a 2H pencil to draw a layer in the dark areas next to the snow-white cloud tops. Tortillion is used to fit into the work and into the details. By mixing, lifting, removing and applying more graphite, clouds appear on the paper.
I soften the clouds using Blu-tack. To make more dramatic clouds darken the sky background. This allows the white cotton clouds to become more fully formed. Keep in mind that if the focus of the drawing is clouds, they should not compete with the rest of the landscape. They should be subtle and gently lead the viewer's eye across the scene. I usually use wisps of light and hints of clouds in most of my landscapes.
I usually spend 5-8 hours just painting the sky and cloud areas. PATIENCE plays a key role in creating a smooth palate.
Once you have the basic technique of creating soft tones and general education clouds, the sky is the limit for all the possibilities and changes you can create. Every minute... every hour... every day... every season... the sky changes its mood and design, giving us an unlimited resource of inspiration for our landscapes.
How to draw a sunset with a pencil step by step
Step one. In any landscape, you first need to draw a horizon line. Having done this, we will add a small setting sun and the silhouette of a ship on the water. 
Step two. Let's outline each of the drawn elements, add a display of the ship on the water. 
Step three. Let's heavily shade the sails, and also draw growing grass in the background using an arbitrary wavy line. 
Step four. Let's add more small waves to the water and display tall grass. Remove the extra lines with an eraser. 
We return to the new document that we created and begin to prepare blanks for future leaves. To prepare this tutorial, I created 4 different brushes:
1)
the densest foliage
2)
Fewer leaves
3) 3 leaves
4) single sheet
Our first and main brush will be used to create the main mass of the future tree. The second and third are more for adjusting the shape and creating additional details. The fourth is for adding individual leaves to the crown so that it does not look monotonous.
There are many descriptions on the Internet of how brushes are created. The main points are that the document size is up to 1024*1024 pixels, you need to draw on a white background in black. Black color in the brush will be the most opaque, white, on the contrary, will be transparent. All shades of gray will have different transparency depending on their proximity to black or white.
So, let's draw the leaves. It all depends on your imagination and preferences. I ended up with something abstract, a hybrid of birch and maple with a dash of poplar.
After all the brushes are drawn, you need to add them to the brush set. Go to the "Edit" menu and click "Define Brush Preset" there. In the dialog box that appears, select the name of the brush and voila, you're done. Our brush appeared in the set, the dialog box of which is called up by pressing the F5 key
We add all the drawn brushes one by one and proceed directly to creating a unique landscape.
First you need to outline and draw a tree trunk with branches on a separate layer. I made the background dirty gray, the tree gray-brown. But on at this stage it doesn't matter yet.
Next, create a layer below the tree and set up brushes.
In the Brushes window we are interested in three main groups:
1)
Shape Dynamics - shape dynamics
2)
Scattering - Scattering
3)
Color Dynamics - color dynamics
Now in order:
1)
Shape dynamics are responsible for changes in brush size as you paint. It is better to leave the main Size Jitter parameter at zero. Set the control to Pen Pressure. As a result, pressing hard will leave the most large leaves, weak - less. Secondly, leave Angle Jitter at zero. Control - Direction. When drawing, the direction of the stroke will be taken into account and the brush will rotate according to the direction. This helps to somewhat avoid identical areas in the image. The rest of this tab can be left untouched.
2)
Scattering speaks for itself - how far the image will appear from the center of the brush. The Scatter parameter is measured as a percentage. The more, the farther from the center the brush draws. Here you need to try to exhibit it yourself different meanings and understand what is more convenient for you and what is more suitable for the drawing. In my case it was approximately 200%. It is also better to set the control to Pen Pressure. In combination with the Shape Dynamics parameters, when pressed hard, larger leaves will appear at a greater distance from each other.
3)
Color dynamics are responsible for variation color range brushes from the selected color in the palette. Required parameters:
- Hue Jitter - how much the brush hue will deviate on the color scale. The higher the percentage, the more the color will move away from the chosen one. In our case, 4-5% will be enough so that the color of the leaves does not vary greatly and shades that are completely unnecessary for us do not appear.
- Saturation Jitter - saturation variations. I didn't touch it, but you can try experimenting.
- Brightness Jitter - how much the brush brightness can deviate towards white and black colors. In my case 10-12%.
Now that the basic parameters are sorted out, you can practice a little to understand how the brushes behave, and then start drawing foliage. Choose the main color and go ahead.
1) With a few strokes of the first brush I outlined the crown behind the trunk.
2)
Using a brush number 2 I marked the lower branches.
3)
Create a new layer above the trunk. Using brushes 1-3 I paint the crown in the foreground.
4)
At this point I changed the shade of the brush to a lighter tone. The crown has become thicker, both in the foreground and in the background.
5)
Let's add some volume to our tree if you haven't done so before.
6)
Let's add a little saturation to the background.
7)
Let's add yellowish leaves for mood.
8)
Let's paint the grass in the foreground and adjust the background a little (with a brush, again, it's more convenient to do it yourself, which is what I did).
9)
And at the last stage, I made a gradient fill on the sky, adjusted the color and brightness of some layers, painted on a couple of clouds and with a hard square brush, with the Scattering parameter turned on, added strokes over the crown so that the work did not look boring and monotonous.
So, our work is ready. In half an hour, a rather sweet and pleasing landscape was born. Of those 30 minutes, yours truly spent two-thirds of the time preparing the illustrations for this lesson.
This is certainly not a masterpiece, but I had another goal - to show how effective working with brushes can be if you approach the task at hand wisely. The matter does not have to be limited to four brushes; there does not have to be foliage of trees or grass. These can be any arrays - bubbles, waves on the water, flocks of insects in the air, clouds and much more.
But you should also not forget that this method is not a panacea and only serves certain purposes in your work. The main thing is to skillfully use it when it is really needed. Don't forget to experiment, read tutorials, learn from your colleagues and develop your own unique style.
How to draw the sea with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's sketch out the horizon line, and these figures will indicate the location of the seagull birds. 
Step two. Now we draw the outlines of the birds themselves. 
Step three. Let's draw each bird in detail. 
Step four. Let's add shading to create the appearance of waves. You might even hear the sound of the surf. 
Don't forget to color!
How to draw nature with a pencil step by step
Step one. We immediately highlight with lines a small pond with banks, and on the banks we will draw several trees with the same lines. A few circles in the water will serve to transform them into ducks. 
Step two. Below we draw tall grass, the circles slowly turn into birds. We carefully outline the edges of the banks with a thick line. 
Step three. In this step, turn your attention to the background behind the horizon line. Let's draw some clouds there. 
Step four. Now draw small waves and shadows on the water, make the grass thicker, and shade the background. 
Step five. Sketch the rest of the clouds in the sky and the missing places on the trees and ground, and then carefully finish the drawing by shading the ducks.
How to draw a forest with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's start with a simple thing: draw a horizon line, and draw a path with two vertical lines. 
Step two. On the sides of the invented path we draw tree trunks, large and small. 
Step three. Let's draw the trunks higher and draw their bottoms with a pencil. We’ll also add some grass at the base of the trunks. 
Sha is the fourth. Finally, let’s draw the tops with branches and add shadows. 
Step five. 
Step six. 
How to draw a lake with a pencil step by step
Step one. Using a pencil, draw a few lines and highlight the shape for the lake in the center. 
Step two. Let's draw the land around the lake with all the vegetation and a small display in the water. 
Step three. Let's make the vegetation more extensive and detailed, correct the contours of the mountains in the background. 
Step four. Let's completely shade the entire area, sketch the surface of the water so that the color tone is different. 
How to draw a river with a pencil step by step
Step one. We take a pencil in our hands and draw a forest landscape. Let's start by drawing wavy lines, which will then create a beautiful river. The other, horizontal line is the horizon line. 
Step two. Since our river is lucky to live in a forest, there should be a lot of trees around it. We draw them, a lot of trunks of all sizes. 
Step three. The trunks are there, but the leaves are not visible. We correct it - we draw clouds on the trunks, later they will make the necessary green cap. Our river also has two small waterfalls, don’t forget them either. 
Step four. We draw various shadows with large hatching. This is a forest, and there will be a lot of them here. Using the same shading, we draw lines on the hand, thereby indicating the direction of the flow. 
Step five. As is customary in our last step, we remove all the clouds of greenery that did not fit, all the fallen leaves, in general, we remove everything unnecessary and adjust the drawing to your taste. 
How to draw a waterfall with a pencil step by step
Step one.
Let us outline in our drawing all the necessary levels of relief: the height of the mountain and the lowland. At the top we will show tree trunks. Let us indicate the position of large stones in the water. And let's draw a couple of lines indicating the direction of flow.
Step two.
The waterfall hides the protruding rocks from view. But between the water space we see large boulders. Let's add a couple more stones below. Let's draw two thresholds for our waterfall.
Step three.
In this step, our picture can already be seen more clearly. Branches appeared on the tree trunks. The mountain, boulders and stones took shape. In the powerful flow of the waterfall we will draw several straight lines directed downwards. And where the water fell there was foam.
Step four
Now you need to carefully examine the image of the waterfall and determine the location of the shadows. With the help of short, hatching lines we will finish our drawing. Here there will be volume around the protruding parts of the mountain, light and shade around the stones, and lines showing the movement of water. And between the trees in the background there is a forest visible. So our landscape is ready.
How to draw waves with a pencil step by step
Step one. First, we draw such a zigzag-like shape with a pencil, and inside it - a pentagon for the surfer’s body. 
Step two. Using neat, large shading we give our waves the shape and direction of movement. You don't need any special precision, just draw the necessary lines. 
Step three. In the center of the wave we draw a surfer on the board. Near it we make the wave more detailed and dark. 
Step four. More shadows for the wave, especially around the person. On the left side we draw the steam that appears as a result of the movement of the wave. 
Step five. Using an eraser, we erase the lines that served as a sketch for the athlete, remove unnecessary lines, and make the wave more realistic and dynamic. 
How to draw a field with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's mark the horizon line. Let's draw clouds. 
Step two. Let's correct the clouds once again. 
Step three. We draw several distant objects on the horizon. 
Step four. Let's add some grass to the foreground. Closer to us it is larger, and the one further away naturally looks small. Can be painted. 
How to draw mountains with a pencil step by step
Step one. We will sketch out the contours of the hills with curved lines, and with one long horizontal line we will divide the sheet in half, creating a horizon. 
Step two. We detail all the ascents and descents, large rock transitions and connections of each mountain. 
Step three. Let's draw the clouds, making the lines of the tops more noticeable and thicker. Let's add shadows using shading. 
Step four. Now let's get down to shading. Let's extinguish every descent, shade areas hidden from the sun, correct the clouds. 
This is roughly how it should work. How do you like this landscape? Write your comments what you think about this drawing and show your work.
This technique is especially great when traveling. Fill your sketchbook with memories from the places you've visited.
Stay with me and create a detailed illustrated pond using graphite pencil, ink and watercolor.
What we need:
- sketch paper
- watercolor paper
- graphite pencil and eraser
- watercolor paints and brushes
- ink and pen
Step 1
To begin, make a small sketch of your pond on sketch paper. He will help you decide on the idea for the drawing.
Step 2
When you are happy with your sketch, start painting on watercolor paper. Sketch all the elements of the drawing.
Step 3
Add a little shading where you apply the ink later. You can also add more details, adhering to a free style.
Step 4
When you are happy with the sketch, take a pen and start drawing the outline. Pay more attention structural elements Firstly. The outline of the pond, the bridge and the stones. By highlighting the lines of these objects, you will make your work easier later when drawing plants and flowers.
Add texture to plant leaves by drawing dots and subtle swirls.
Step 5
Continue adding ink in the same manner. Adding swirls and lines to add texture.
Step 6
Now it's time to add depth and volume to the drawing. To do this, draw shadows. Use parallel lines on dark areas and shading in the darkest areas at the base of the trunks and inside the leaves.
Create light movement of water by drawing light lines and curves.
Draw straight lines to create reflections of the plants and bridge.
Step 7
Now we can color the drawing. Take a large round brush and paints and apply a translucent layer of watercolor. Using a thin brush, paint the main structure of the bridge.
Step 8
Let the paint dry. Mix shades of green and brown paints and color the plants.
Step 9
Leave the previous coat of paint to dry. Continue adding in thicker layers green paint on top of trees to add depth to the design.
Step 10
Continue adding colors until you are happy with the result. Use a thin brush for the colors in the foreground.
We're done! I hope you enjoyed drawing this pond.
Drawing is like magic. Using paints and a brush, you can create on a sheet of paper realistic picture, where everything on it will look like the real thing. Looking at this natural landscape, it seems that a stormy mountain river is about to overflow its banks, and a mermaid will swim out of the calm surface of the lake.
In such paintings it is necessary to draw water realistically. After all, it is she who plays the dominant role on the canvas. The easiest way is to depict the calm waters that fill the lakes.
First, choose which plan the similar object will be located on. Outline its boundaries with a pencil, depicting an oval and a circle. Help to draw water realistic paint: blue, blue, black. Along the edges of the lake and pond the depth is shallow. Therefore, this part is recreated using blue paint. The further towards the middle of the object, the darker the shades should be.
It is not necessary to depict great depth in the middle of the lake. Make several round dark spots in different parts of the pond. Paint dark blue and white flowers will help you see circles spreading across the water. And the drawing will turn out more realistic.
It is necessary to think about which side the light source will be on in order to draw shadows and reflections of the sun on the surface of the water. The latter will be well conveyed by white or silver paint.
river water
In a river, water does not stand still, but flows. If this is a seething mountain stream, then you need to convey with the help of a drawing the direction of movement of the river, show that it is restless - raging and foaming.
First draw a small mountain. Let the river start from its top. Using two pencil lines, mark the right and left boundaries of the reservoir. Then, using lines that run almost parallel to these, show that the water is falling down.
Near the foot of the mountain, draw a few splashes so that you can see with what force this water stream falls from above and flows further.
If the river is not mountainous, but calm, then draw ripples on its surface using several wavy lines. Let the combs shine in the sun. Gold or silver paint will help achieve this effect.
You can use another method. After you have painted the river with blue, blue paint, rub wax candles wave crests. Cover them with dark blue. When the paints are dry, take a knitting needle or toothpick and scratch small areas where the ripples are depicted. You will see how it sparkles and sparkles in the sun.
What You'll Be Creating
Water is very difficult to draw because we can see it through its interaction with objects nearby and it doesn't look like the object itself. But “difficult” does not mean “impossible” - when the right method you can create believable water with just pencils!
In this tutorial I'll show you how to draw waves under an object, a reflection on a large body of water (like a lake or sea), and a waterfall.
What do we need
- Some sheets of paper
- Hard Pencil (HB)
- Average soft pencil(2B)
- Soft pencil (5B or lower)
- Sharpener
- Eraser (optional)
1. Draw a close-up of the water
Step 1
First, prepare some kind of water object that will reveal itself according to what is reflected in it.
Step 2
Using a hard brush, draw the outline of the reflection.
Step 3
Draw a wavy pattern underneath the object. The further away the waves are, the denser they should be.
Step 4
The waves intersect with each other to create outlined areas. Fill in some of them:
Step 5
Cross the white areas between the thick line shapes.
Step 6.
Take a soft pencil and press firmly to darken parts of the shapes. What parts?
- If the subject is bright, darken the details outside of its reflection.
- If your subject is dark, darken the parts within its reflection.
Step 7
Take a soft pencil and fill in the areas between the dark shapes.
Step 8
Use the same pencil to hone in some shadows in the reflection. I also added a shadow under the tail.
Step 9
Take a soft pencil and use it to highlight certain parts.
2. Draw a lake/sea
Step 1
Technically we could use the same method as before to paint the reflection on the lake or sea, but since they are so large it wouldn't be very effective. We can use a shortcut instead.
Of course, first you need something that will reflect on the water. You can use my tutorials to create it:
Step 2
It is very important to use the correct perspective for reflection. You can't just reflect the shore!
Step 3
Use a pencil to sketch out the reflection. It doesn't have to be a very correct copy of the shore.
Step 4
Take a soft pencil and draw waves under the dark objects. The sky is very bright, so it doesn't need to be reflected. This is how we save time!
Step 6.
Press even harder when you are close to the shore to make the boundary between water and land more visible.
3. Draw a waterfall
Step 1
Step 2
Use a hard pencil to draw the shadows of the land under the water very subtly.
Step 3
Use the same pencil to draw streams of water flowing down. If necessary, use the eraser to lighten a few shaded details.
In "vertical" parts, don't draw flows as simple vertical lines, and create "V" from them.
Step 4
Shade the “cave” under the waterfall by filling the space between the streams. To do this, use a soft pencil.
Step 5
Make the rims on rock floors shine by highlighting the flow parts on them.
Step 6.
Accentuate flows by shading parts of them. Make sure the "V" and rotated "V" are clearly visible in the flowing water picture.
Step 7
Take a soft pencil and highlight some parts of the flow, especially in the shadows and near dark parts that may be reflected by the water.
Step 8
Take a hard pencil and draw foam under the waterfall.
Step 9
Draw the direction of the water running radially from this point.
Step 10
Draw and fill in the water in this area using soft pencils.
Step 11
Use a clean eraser to add shine in the brightest areas.
Great job!
Did you like this lesson? Make sure you try the others in the " " series. And if you want to make your drawings even more beautiful before you publish them online, try these tutorials.
