Don’t start with one element and work out from it. Try in your mind’s eye to capture the view you want to convey. What are the steps you need to take when getting started nature sketching? You’re sitting and gazing at a beautiful landscape.
I’ve put together a sketch kit that is suited to this purpose.Ī pencil, ink or micron pen as well as a small tin of watercolours to create a blush of minimal colour is really all you need. In my personal case, I like using hard backed square sketchbooks that can open out to accommodate a landscape view or smaller vignettes of natural sketches in and around the sketch itself. Sketching the natural landscape in situ, (in addition to the points mentioned above,) is also determined by the size of sketchbook you’re using.Īn A5 landscape or portrait sketchbook is usually the maximum size I would stretch to if I was out and about.
Your creative style will emerge too! Landscapes The more you practice sketching outdoors the better your drawing technique will become. You will be supercharged to get on with it and make the most of filling pages and over time your strokes on paper will become more efficient and true to form. It will be more elemental, and not as prescriptive as simply drawing in a sketchbook at home. Nature sketching outdoors will help you develop a new type of approach to your drawing that sharpens your perception skills as well as unique technique. But persevering with it means you fill a sketchbook consistent to your own personal outdoor sketching style.
Nature sketch ideas series#
Your sketching may become scrappy at best, as opposed to neatly laid out, a series of scrawls that you will need to learn to take pride in and use to build your confidence. How do you even begin to get this down on paper? You don’t have the enclosed image of a photograph to provide a frame of reference but rather a landscape around you. You often have to be satisfied with plenty of mistakes because time, spectators, the weather or other factors will be contributors to the confidence with which you draw and may often be against you.Ĭomposition becomes challenging too. Sketching what you see, however, is no mean feat. Ideas on Nature Sketching Are you Inside or Out?īefore we launch into these categories, however, there is one important factor that changes the approach you take to the sketch you want to get down on paper.Īre you inside or outside whilst you are drawing? Is the “real thing”in front of you or are you working from an image?Īpart from the fact that you may be carrying or using different equipment, sketching “en plain air” means that your sketch doesn’t need to be overwrought with too much detail. They include landscapes, flora and fauna, and the birds and bees (to include the wider animal kingdom.) As you become more of a proficient artist you too many be able to hone in on the types of drawings you would categorise as nature sketching. I have 3 main categories I use in my sketchbook that fit the nature sketching theme. I think there are a variety of different techniques to employ when considering nature sketching and it starts by creating the categories you would class as “nature” based.
I believe this is where some of the magic of drawing lies.
Perhaps we become more aware of our sense of place within the wider world as we start to capture it all on paper. Pleasures that are rooted in the natural world.Īs important as its counterpart, (urban sketching), nature sketching or rural sketching, elicits a sense of adventure akin to being on holiday, a sense of taking a break and expanding one’s horizon outwards. Whether a bird sitting on your inner city garden fence, your succulent bathing in the sunshine on a window sill, or portobello mushrooms tumbling out of a brown paper bag ready for chopping, I have often dwelt on the fact that the reason I love to draw so much is that I am drawn to the very simplest of life’s pleasures. Without realising it, nature creeps into our daily interpretations of the world. Have you ever wondered where to start when nature sketching?įirstly, how does one even begin to define it? From sweeping landscapes to the local park, animals to trees, birds to moss, the natural world provides limitless inspiration for our sketchbooks.
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