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Pencil drawings of nature1/23/2024 Once they get over themselves, artists face another decision: How much detail to include? See? You’re already an artist! Big or small–focus is all. (Photo: Peter Moore)ĭraw one line, then another one. The better you get at this, the less time you waste in hesitations and second thoughts.” Patience and attention to detail are key to get started drawing. “Tap into your curiosities and interests. “The easiest way to start a drawing is to zoom in on what catches your eye,” he says. Nishant Jain, the sketch-meister behind the SneakyArt Post on Substack, has guided hundreds of artists through their first scribbles. You learned to walk before you learned to backpack, and this will be a journey, too. Who cares? You’re doing this to pay homage to a landscape, not to land on the auction block at Christie’s. What next? It takes just three steps to draw a landscape. The author’s first drawing from the window of a Colorado Hut. 2 pencil, and began staring at the glorious Sawatch Range, visible through the picture window. After I completed the six-mile snowshoe in, split kindling, and coaxed a roaring fire in the wood stove, I tore off a sheet of the blank newsprint provided as a firestarter, picked up my No. My first sketchy hike was to the Benedict Huts, just south of Aspen. But I draw anyway-because it forces me to slow down and actually see the landscape, because it stokes memories of trail life, and because it motivates me to seek new pencil-perfect landscapes. Drawings help you tap into past stokes, and inspire you to plan new ones. That last bit is key, especially in the off-season. The weight-to-usefulness ratio is off the charts, because when I draw a mountainscape, that’s when I really come to know it, honor it, and remember it. You hike for the views, the solitude, the big nature, right? Me too. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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