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WEEKLY UPDATE: What do you find challenging about adding LANDSCAPES to your sketches? (Patreon)

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2024-07-29 00:00:03
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TUTORIAL FOR THIS WEEK:  Urban Sketching - Landscapes

This week we are going to sketch this scene with lots of greenery and some interesting features such as the bridge and red building.

I'd love to hear from you what you find challenging about adding landscapes to your Urban Sketches. Is it the construction process or the watercolors? Maybe how much detail to add? I'd like to focus on areas that help you so please let me know in the comments! 👇

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Looking forward to hearing from you below!

Scottie

POLL: What do you find challenging about adding LANDSCAPES to your sketches? (Answer in comment section below)

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Kerstin

Ok, we have a river, mountains, waterfall, plants … no idea how to make all this without it all together looks like a huge overloaded mess 🤪

Kerstin

I think its in Norway?

Karen

Getting depth, especially in this one with so many things to focus on.

Bernie

Kerstin has summed up so so well what I was about to say. Looking forward to seeing Scottie’s magic wand at work.

Sarah Brace

Moving Water is always hard

Andrea C.

Definitely struggle with how to add detail and how much with landscapes. Also difficult to get the values accurate to add form and distance. Feel like I end up over doing it all and still missing the mark :-(

Andrea C.

Also very excited about this reference photo! Hope we can do more landscapes!

Lilith Uhler

I struggle with making background look far away when doing line and wash. I feel like the line always brings it forward too much, even when I try not to make it too thick or too detailed. I always lose that depth.

Pamela Vossler

How much detail to add and perspective.

Datrianna

Figuring out the right level of detail

Mary L Doty

I always wonder how much line work I really need after all the color can do a lot of the work. I like to draw so I wonder if I use the line work more than I need. It is really a balance after all.

Mukul Apte

How much of details to add and perspective

David G.

How to vary the values and colors of the trees.

Lorna Graham

For me it’s how to simply a landscape and still turn out a masterpiece 😁 I know you will show us just that Scottie ☺️

Rockin' Robin

for me the whole picture is still difficult, but with landscapes it is especially difficult for me to get depth into the picture

Wendy Rowe

How to add depth and shadows would greatly help Scottie, look forward to this one, thank you.

Gea

All the green. There are so many different green colours.

Sheryl Galinski

Adding living things in the right proportion

RICS

It looks like many people have the same problem I have - perspective - how to get ‘stuff’ (trees, buildings, people) into the drawing without having them look like they are just ‘stuck’ on the page. Thanks for the great tutorials.

Merso

I always find it difficult to know where to stop. That includes how much detail, but also, which part of the landscape to include: which parts are interesting and add to the picture, which parts are too much, make the composition muddy, take away from the main poi

Thomas Kennedy

Really looking forward to your tutorial. I find adding trees etc to be a bit tedious.

Colleen

knowing what amount of detail to add

Deborah Rifkin

This is a great image to explore landscape issues. Thanks, Scottie! I have trouble depicting water convincingly, so I like that this image has both a slightly choppy river and a rushing waterfall. I need help on those features.

Carl

Looking forward to this one. Water and large expanses of green will be my most challenging part.

Karen King

I tend to draw/paint what I see, but for the best composition, sometimes we need to move or eliminate certain items. For example, in this photo the waterfall and house compete for attention, yet both are nice features to include. Move the waterfall? Just tone down the contrast?, etc. Also, like everyone...all those greens!

Renata B

Can you show us techniques to paint all the greenery with volume and showing the different depths between them? Thank you.

Suzanne Taylor

For me it would be....do I draw each individual tree or do I create a mass of tress? If i create a mass of trees how do I create texture and the different colors within the trees.

Jennifer

What to leave in, what to leave out.

Jessica

Definitely creating depth and color for all the greenery.

Petra

How do I bring the red house with the bridge and waterfall into the golden middle, that was my first thought. What stays, what goes away...you'll show us Scottie, thanks.

jo stock

i think the biggest headache with scenes like this is choosing the focal point. i'd be tempted to leave out the waterfall and concentrate on the bridge and house.

Colins sketching posts

I would like some thoughts on how to get right perspective,,,on for ground, middle, and distant trees and hills etc.

Cydni

I didn’t even realize it had a waterfall until I saw the comments 🫣 shows how observant I am! My eye was immediately drawn to the bridge and house. I would like to see how to do all of the greenery simply but also give it depth. And now that I know there’s a waterfall, I’d like to know about that too 😂

My Day Off

I would make the house the focal point and I would draw and paint it as a portrait rather than landscape to give credit to the waterfall.

Jessica

When is this tutorial video dropping?

Jacqueline Munkelt

I find it difficult to paint the forest and the meadows so that it is neither very accurate nor a uniform green area. just to give it some tension.

Michael Coleman

Layering the background to get a 3d effect - particularly with multiple sequences of trees.