Landscape Drawing

Landscape is the most important and popular subject chosen by artists, amateur painters and visitors to museums and galleries, this is mostly true because to such an extent landscape drawing or painting seems to give so much satisfaction as an artistic work to many people where they could find and enjoy the present of art in the art work.. A landscape can be drawn from any scene, but however landscape drawing has certain interesting features with regards to the making of shadow and light in the drawing itself.

Many landscape drawing or painting is done in a studio rather than directly at the scene location, working outdoor on the spot produces a spontaneity and dynamism with regards to rendering the beauty of the scene itself, while working in the studio will give much time to consider the composition of the drawing more carefully and details of the scene could be obtained from the photos taken at the refered scene. The artist has to decide for herself or himself which is most satisfying way to do. I myself do landscape work art drawing in studio which give me more time to work the composition and playing the colours as to make up the semi-abstract drawing or pop-art drawing with reference from photograph.

Before beginning to draw landscape it is good to first start with making sketch of the main areas which will help process of making the shading and creating contrasts in order to build certain dynamism between the light and dark areas of different forms. To increase the depth with respect to the distant planes the contrast in the foreground must be intensified and build more detail in the foreground and centre of interest, while more distant plane are made less detailed and less defined.  A good landscape drawing shall maintained the perspective which is obtained in the background with a horizon line imagination as well as the objects that can act as a reference points to established the perspective.

Abstract or realism

By definition abstract drawing is regarded as images which do not reflect visual reality, as opposed to realism which seeks to show exactly what the eyes see, while realism is an artwork that focuses on depicting subjects and objects accurately as they appear in reality. However both techniques have their own beauty whether you do the realism drawing or abstract drawing, as far as the art exists in the drawing as felt or seen by the viewer, then you know that you have revealed an art or something beautiful in the drawing.

I like abstract drawing as well as realism drawing due to both techniques have their own beauty so that is why in my drawing I used to combine abstract and realism in one image to enhance more energy of beauty in the drawing. I do the drawing as abstract or semi-abstract.

Sometime I make the pop-art drawing, a kind of contemporer drawing technique that utilizes popular imagery and commodities as resources and inspiration. I do the pop-art landscape drawing style by first making up the sketch, then draw or put some colours in the light and dark gradation areas and shape of the landscape with the value and tone of colour pattern. Perspective is obtained by the way colours representing perspective, that is darker colours value represent less distant than lighter colours, so that the colours combination will give the perspective and the artistic drawing regarded as pop-art drawing.

Below is landscape in pop-art drawing technique done with pencil, coloured pencil and gouache.