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"Fifty-fifty in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality." -Andy Goldsworthy

But, how do you depict it?!

As anyone who has stared at a wintry scene knows, winter poses a unique set of drawing dilemmas and opportunities.

Some of the hurdles were identified by Harvard students and faculty during 'Drawn to Scientific discipline' and 'Drawn to the Landscape' courses I led in Jan. Thanks to the enthusiasm and curiosity of those students, I had a great excuse to become looking for specific answers. I mined reference books and online resources, and take come with recommendations for how to see these winter sketching challenges.

Here's what we were grappling with in Petersham, Mass. Please practise feel gratuitous to share more than suggestions and references in the comments!

1. Cartoon trees in a forest of copse
2. Drawing copse, branches, rocks, fences, and other things with snowfall piled on them.
3. Drawing ice (on something and on/in water)
4. Drawing a sunset/clouds without color
5. Cartoon tracks in the snow
6. Making things look 3-dimensional
7. How to depict curvy surfaces (such as found leaves)

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How to depict specific subjects (in winter)

i. Drawing trees in a woods of copse

Pages 179-192 of Cathy Johnson'sThe Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature bargain with drawing trees and forest scenes in nifty depth. From how to draw different species to how to describe roots, tree branching patterns, and whole landscapes, her explanations are straightforward and easy to follow.

Although typically, objects and spaces become lighter (gray and white) the farther they are from the foreground of a drawing, forests can exist an exception. In many cases, you may find it makes visual sense to sketch a few foreground trees clearly – with little detail – leaving them primarily white. Then, the background becomes increasingly dark and less distinct, in order to emphasize the forms of the foreground shapes.

Additional Resources:

• The Artistic Anatomy of Copse by Rex Vicat Cole
• This 'wiki-how' simplifies drawing a forest into a few judiciously placed lines.

Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth'sKeeping a Nature Journal provides detailed line drawing examples of how to draw leaves, branches, full copse, etc. Excerpts from that book are bachelor in this online pamphlet about how to describe copse.

Here's an case of that calorie-free foreground-night    background approach (admitting in early on jump).

2. Drawing trees, branches, rocks, fences, and other things with snow piled on them.

Interestingly, I found very little about how to draw snow, although i would think that was an obvious topic for a winter drawing how-to.

Winter spruce stump & sapling sketched in northwestern Montana many years ago

Although at that place is little teaching, Shari Blaukopf's blog "The Sketchbook" provides daily examples of drawing and watercolor sketching. Since she lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at that place are several months each year where nigh of her posts are about snowy scenes. Only looking closely at how she draws/paints shadows (using color, shape, etc.) is an education in rendering snowfall.

My cursory suggestions re the mechanics of drawing snow on acme of things:

1. Look at how snow piles upward, how it overlays or hangs off the edges of what it sits on. Take fourth dimension to draw in the shadows cast by the snow where it overlaps with the object it sits on.
2. Recollect that in color shorthand, blues, purples, and grays will make people automatically retrieve "cold," so try limiting your colors in winter scenes to cool colors until you experience you've mastered that effect.
3. And, as Clare Walker Leslie and Charles East. Roth'sKeeping a Nature Periodical suggests, try cartoon "around" snow, with light dotted or broken lines on the pinnacle edges, to propose that information technology is not as solid and dark equally the surface upon which it is piled.

Boosted Resource

1. From your imagination (notation techniques should exist transferable to outdoor drawing)
   • This YouTube video shows how to draw a snow-covered tree in pencil.
   • This YouTube video shows snow-covered conifer drawing using colored pencils.
2. Graham Booth is a UK watercolor artist, and this twenty-minute video shows how to create a snow scene in watercolor. There are a few lessons to exist learned, which with practice, could be simplified for more rapid outdoor sketching.
3. Visit the Artist's Periodical Workshop Facebook group for a host of folks (of varying skill sets) who volition be happy to provide suggestions for virtually whatever sketching question. I searched for "snow" and found lots of examples of way/colour/techniques for dealing with snow, just no specific instructions. I posted the snow sketching question at that place, then bank check back to see if nosotros become any detailed answers.

3. Cartoon ice (on something and on/in water)

Spring water ice break-up on the Saint Lawrence River (Quebec, Canada)

So far, this question is withal seeking an answer. In some senses, drawing ice on h2o would exist similar to drawing snowfall (meet #2 to a higher place),  but there is the added challenge of translucent ice.

I volition update this post when I notice more than resource that would likely be helpful.

four. Drawing a dusk/clouds without color

This detailed caption of how to draw skies and clouds volition exist useful, though the process is more fourth dimension-consuming than some may adopt. This highly detailed heaven-drawing video introduces several cloud/heaven drawing techniques. And, this step-by-step tutorial explains how to use shading and erasing to build up cloud shapes.

Sketch of clouds over Rattlesnake mountains, western Montana

All of these techniques can exist skilful indoors or out, looking at reference images or the sky overhead. A combination of both types of practice should help you build upward musculus memory and the ability to sketch skies and clouds more than quickly.

One key point to continue in mind is that a sky is typically darker at the top (overhead/top of the page), and lighter equally information technology nears the horizon.

This is particularly true in the case of a sunset, but holds truthful under nearly any light conditions.

Additional Resources

1. Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth'sKeeping a Nature Periodicalprovides really simple explanations of how to draw skies, clouds, etc.
2. Cathy Johnson'due southThe Sierra Gild Guide to Sketching in Nature (page 161) shows slightly more detailed ways of rendering various types of sky/deject combos.

5. Cartoon tracks in the snow

This North American beaver rails shows lots of ideas for how to draw the outline, include notes about dimensions, and fifty-fifty how to show the animal's gait. Source: Wikimedia Commons: http://eatables.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_tracks.jpg.

1. Here are some things to keep in mind when drawing tracks in full general.
2. As with snow piled on a branch, the edges of tracks in the snow tin exist fatigued with a broken/dotted line, to indicate they aren't a solid shape.
3. Also, pay attention to how the light falls on the track, and lightly shade in where the inside of the track is shaded. That helps the viewer understand the shape has dimension.
4. If cartoon a track simply equally an outline so you lot can expect it upwards later, pay attention to the overall shape (oval, rectangular, square, etc.), equally well as the truthful dimensions. Employ something like your thumb (mine measures i″ from the first knuckle to the end) to measure the track length and width (and depth!). Note those measurements alongside, or on top of, your sketch.
5. Also, brand note of whether you tin can encounter claw marks, how many toes the fauna has and where they are located on the foot/track, how old the tracks seem to be, and if possible, what the gait/pattern of the animal was. The gait could be indicated just with dots or dashes. Ex: —– or ::  ::
6. If drawing the tracks in a scene/landscape, exist aware that they volition be elongated/distorted, and should follow the profile of the basis, in order to announced as though they are receding from view. Similarly, the tracks should become smaller, lighter, and less distinct every bit they move away from the foreground.

6. Making things look 3-dimensional

This video explains shading and dimensional drawing in less than 5 minutes. Cathy Johnson'southThe Sierra Gild Guide to Sketching in Nature (pages 67-72) provides a detailed explanation of how to 'capture the illusion of light.'

7. How to draw curvy surfaces (such as plant leaves)

The California Native Plant Society field journal curriculum (pages 16-twenty) details how to describe plants and flowers of different shapes. Pages 21-22 specifically explain how to draw curly and overlapping petals and leaves. Keep reading in this eastward-book for information on how to draw birds, besides.

Cathy Johnson'sThe Sierra Gild Guide to Sketching in Nature (folio 165-178) and Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth'sKeeping a Nature Journal, are also slap-up resources for how to depict plants, animals, and landscapes.

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