How To Draw A Snowy Background

Winter is cold and unpleasant, but it definitely creates beautiful landscapes. Mountains and tree branches covered with snow, lakes turned into ice... Fifty-fifty if there's no wintertime where you live, you lot can create some wintertime magic by drawing a snowy scene. In this tutorial I will show you lot how!

What You Will Need

Sheet of paper
HB pencil
2B pencil
5B pencil
8B pencil
Pencil sharpener
Eraser

1. How to Sketch the Mountains

Step one

Take the HB pencil and sketch the general outline of the mountains with sharp, ragged lines. Press as lightly as possible—the lines should be barely visible.

You tin use a reference for this step—for case, 1 of the mountain photos on PhotoDune.

Step 2

Describe some "branching" all over the mountains.

Step three

Now add branches to these lines. You don't demand to be very careful—draw these lines sharply, chaotically. Nature doesn't like perfection!

Stride iv

Change your grip to a looser one, to draw with a side of the pb.

Utilize this grip to shade 1 side of each branch. This should create a 3D result.

Step 5

Change your grip dorsum to the precise one (the i you use for writing), and brand the edges of the ridges more detailed.

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2. How to Describe Snow on the Mountains

Step 1

Take the 2B pencil now, tilt information technology (alter the grip) and darken the shadowed side of each ridge. This is supposed to be the area uncovered by the snow. Feel free to press difficult to achieve a deep, nighttime shade.

Step 2

Continue the process by going lower and lower, leaving some infinite for the snow. To create a proper pattern, imagine that the snow is sliding over the ridges.

Step iii

Shade the same side of the ridges some more to create a contrast betwixt the adumbral and the illuminated side.

Step 4

Tilt the pencil and depict the area uncovered with snow on the other side. Don't press every bit hard so that y'all proceed the contrast between both sides.

Step v

Take the 5B pencil, make certain it's precipitous, and employ it to add together details/detailed shading on the shadowed side.

Step 6

Take the eraser, make clean it, and apply it to carefully brighten the snow between the ridges. Be careful non to erase the details!

Pace 7

Take the HB pencil, make sure it's sharp, and employ information technology to create a border between the "naked" rock and the snow layer. You tin can also add some details (loose rocks) with it.

three. How to Depict a Winter Landscape With Frozen Lake and Trees

Step 1

If nosotros darken the sky, the contrast will make the snowfall expect whiter. Have the 2B pencil, tilt it, and fill the sky with it. And then mistiness it using a finger.

Step 2

Use the eraser to "draw" the clouds. You tin learn more than about drawing clouds from my tutorial:

Step 3

Utilize the HB pencil to outline the shore of the lake. Exit some area of snow betwixt the mountains and the lake.

Footstep iv

To create a nicer limerick and a sense of scale, sketch some trees that are closer to the viewer than the mountains.

Step 5

Take the 2B pencil, tilt it slightly, and sketch the branches. Get out some white between them to place snow there.

You can learn more than most drawing trees from my tutorial:

Pace 6

Use the HB pencil to draw the outline of the snow. Make it heavy!

Step 7

Take a well-sharpened 8B pencil and darken the branches, adding some details to them.

Step viii

Use the 5B pencil to shade the ground under the copse.

Step 9

Take the HB pencil and sketch more copse going deeper and deeper into the background. This volition add a sense of distance.

Step 10

Shade the trees, with contrast fading as they become deeper into the groundwork.

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Step 11

Add together a whole woods of tiny trees under the mountains. Draw them with the 2B pencil, and don't try to include whatsoever details—they tin exist just a bunch of brusque lines.

Pace 12

Take the HB pencil and stress the line of the shore again to know exactly where the lake starts.

Step 13

Take the 5B pencil, tilt information technology, and describe a very bones reflection of the scene. Water ice is not as cogitating as water, so don't worry well-nigh the details.

Step 14

Accept the eraser and smudge it over the lake. This will create an upshot of a matte reflection.

Step 15

Scan the drawing or take a photo of information technology, and don't forget to clean it up before sharing!

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