Drawing Landscapes

#1

I’ve been interested for quite a long time on drawing landscapes. I’ve seen beautiful fantasy work done with landscapes, and it has truely inspired me to do some work with that. Iw as wondering if anyone had any tips for suggested reading or websites that I could look through to learn how I can go about drawing landscapes, whether they be fantasy or real life?

#2

Can anyone help me?

#3

http://thegnomonworkshop.com/

Check out the analog DVDs (Zhu, Church, etc.).

#4

check out the work of David Roberts. He did a series of landscape drawings in egypt and the middle east that are amazing. definetely a good reference.

#5

Thanks, those DvD’s look interesting, I’ll see if I can check those out. I’m also looking for tutorials at the moment for basic composition of landscapes and city scapes.

#6

Anyone else have any tips that would be helpful. I mean the DvD’s sound great an all, but I was just wondering if there were any articles or tutorials or something on the web that might be helpful?

#7

Maybe this link can help

Landscape Composition Rules
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/135/120/

#8

I don’t believe that the basic rules of composition change whether you are drawing the Lake District, or a fantasy landscape - unless of course you are after a specific effect.

Have a look here:

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/135/120/

and some of the other links in the “Art Tutorials & Theories” section here.

You might also want to look at this book:

http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000130/

for some ideas.

Hope this helps!

Bernie

#9

Practice, practice, practice.
Choose a few images that inspire you, and try to reproduce them. Observe how the artists tackled with various problems, and what solutions they found.
Here at cgsociety there have been more than enough articles on artist who explain how they work step by step.
Check out the artists profile section or the tutorials one…
Look for books or webs ites with landscapes from renessance masters.
There are so many sites, it just needs the right attitude and devotion.
Just a few handy:
http://mattepainting.org/
http://www.conceptart.org/

#10

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