This may include small shrub, stem with some leaves, bare stems etc. Use your imagination and observation of your surroundings to draw different types of ground cover in a drawing to add interest as shown below. This is especially useful when the background is darker and you want the flowers to stand out. Essentially, an overall feel or ‘suggestion’ of flowers is given.įollowing drawing shows use of above technique to draw a simple spring landscape.įollowing technique for flower can also be used. Use following technique to draw wild flowers on the ground at a distance. In the first drawing, some white is left around the flowers at the base of stones to make them stand out. In all these cases, first flowers are drawn and then hint of grass is added at the bottom. ![]() In the last drawing below, grass is draw very lightly around the flower and stem to make them stand out.įollowing are some examples of use of wild flowers with other elements. In this case, leave a small amount of white around the edges of element in the front to create separation. In a black and white pen and ink drawing, colour can’t be used to separate different elements that overlap each other. Leaving White to Differentiate Different Elements: Hint of grass can be used at the base of stem to further ground them and add more interest as shown below. Always remember to ground the stem by drawing a wiggly line at its base. A simple flower can be drawn as shown below. To draw a wild flower, simply draw a slightly curved line representing stem. Don’t use a straight line or regular shape like circle or ellipse as this destroys the effect. When doing so, use ‘organic’ shapes as shown below. Drawing 3 below is often not needed.Īdd some variations in tone of grass as shown in middle drawing above to add interest to the drawing. This is often done with grass where mere suggestion of grass is enough to give feel of grass covered ground as shown in drawings 1 and 2 below. In pen and ink drawing, a hint or ‘suggestion’ is often used to convey presence of certain element. Vol 6 of my pen and ink drawing workbooks focuses on drawing interesting ground plains and is a great way to learn doing quick and easy pleasing landscapes. My workbooks also contain additional content and hands on exercises to practice drawing ground cover. You can find many other examples in Mini-Landscapes. Instead, aim to give ‘suggestion’ of grass as shown above and the mind interprets it appropriately. You don’t have to cover the whole ground with grass. It is the ‘suggestion’ of grass that matters. These lines give more definition to the ground and add overall interest in addition to giving sense of distance in the drawing. This reinforces feeling of distance in the drawing. Also vary the horizontal length of these lines with their length increasing towards the viewer. To create flat ground form, use horizontal parallel lines as shown below. It is always more effective to create ‘ground form’ and draw grass on it. ![]() Also, vary their density to add more interest to the drawing.Ībove, grass is drawn without a ‘ground form’, i.e. Make distant grass smaller than one closer as per perspective. To draw grass, use short slightly curved lines with a ‘ root‘ as shown below. Emergence of any specific pattern in drawing grass with kill the effect.
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