From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape

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Houses and buildings in the landscape

Houses and buildings in the landscape

- So now we're going to look at how to draw individual elements in the landscape. Houses, and buildings, rocks, and trees, and different types of foliage. What you've got to try and imagine when you're drawing elements, is to gently submerge them into your drawing into the landscape. So imagine that this rubber here was a house, and this was the existing landscape. Instead of doing your drawing so the house sits on top of the landscape, try and do it so that the house is submerged into the landscape. And what this helps to do, is create a broken edge, an area, that crosses over the corner. You've got broken corners, you've got a contrast between the dark and the light. If you think of this very simple idea of breaking the corners of objects, sinking them in, it can be so effective in creating that illusion of realism in your drawings. We're now going back on location to see how you can incorporate buildings into your landscape sketches. And it don't get much better than this cluster…

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