Drawing steppe in pencil: a master class for beginners

Steppe landscape is a picture of the boundlessplain expanses without forests. Only small bushes stand alone here and there. The steppe attracts with its infinity, its grandeur and beauty. It is impossible not to admire, it is impossible not to love.

Many artists find inspiration in the greatness andvariety of landscapes. The steppe is good at any time of the year, but there is something special in it, mysterious and fascinating in early spring: in some places there is still snow, and in some places flowers are breaking through. In summertime, the steppe is covered with a yellow-green carpet, and in winter it is covered with snow-white and ice. Drawing steppe pencil can display any time of year.

At the master class we will analyze how to draw a steppe with a pencil. Later, the image can be painted with watercolor or wax crayons if desired.

Drawing steppe (pencil) requires compliance with some rules.

Requirements for landscape drawings

A line should be drawn in the image.horizon, which passes where the sky visually ends and the earth begins. Since there are no straight lines in nature, their drawing in landscape drawings should be avoided. To emphasize the depth of space, artists use an aerial perspective: in the foreground, details are drawn clearly, and in the background - blurry. Drawing steppe with a pencil is also impossible without aerial perspective. Remove objects into the depths also by muffling colors and smoothing shades.

What you need to cook?

• Sheet of thick paper (you can use landscape).
• Несколько карандашей с разной степенью мягкости to transfer different tones (it is better to use a soft pencil) - 2B, 4B and 6B, F will be enough (you can draw everything by adjusting the pressure on the pencil).
• Eraser.
• A small piece of fabric (preferably suede) for feathering.
• Makeup brushes, also for shading.

Drawing steppe in pencil (step by step)

1. Prepare and arrange all the necessary materials.
2. Decide on the composition, think about where and how the elements of the picture will be located on the sheet.
3. On a piece of paper, mark the horizon line.
4. Stepping back a few centimeters from it, draw another line below. The resulting narrow strip will be the background.
5. Streak above the horizon in several layers to create a sky tone (1 layer horizontally and 2 layers diagonally).
6. Rub the shading with a soft cloth wrapped around your finger. It should make a uniform smooth tone. Do not forget that closer to the horizon the tone should be lighter.
7. If necessary, add another 2 layers of hatching and rub again - it all depends on the effect you want to achieve. The more shading, the darker and more evenly the tone will be.
8. Erase the clouds.Darken the space around them with shading and shading with brushes. Since clouds are not the main theme of the picture, do not focus on them. For a landscape, only a hint of clouds is enough.

In the background, use blurry lines to apply elements of the steppe - it can be a lonely low shrub or a small hillock. Paint grass or flowers with strokes, without drawing details.

Fill the wide strip of the middle plan with rows of thick grass (separate blades of grass should be visible, as this is the middle plan).

Drawing steppe (pencil) ready.