How To Draw Craggy Distant Mountains

This is a free printable how-to-draw worksheet for craggy mountains.

Here is a how-to-draw craggy distant mountains worksheet that will help the young artist develop skills at drawing a basic feature of a landscape and push him beyond mere triangles in the background.

There is more than one way to do anything, and I use different methods in my drawings. This method is a favorite of mine and has served me well in creating many pictures.

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How To Draw The Craggy Mountains Worksheet.

Sometimes it takes me hours, but I create these how to draw worksheets, but I do it so that I can give back because I believe that when you have been given a gift, it is so you can be a gift to others, and I hope these worksheets are a means of blessing to you.

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PRINTABLE NOTES

BEGINNINGS
Remember, you are not drawing a mountain but a range of mountains. Some will be in the background behind others, and little hills will be low in the middle ground.

 Use short straight jagged lines to scribble shapes that are slightly triangular in shape. Keep them in different sizes and shapes.  One should be higher than the others it should be near the center if they are all the same height it would be boring.

Draw the middle ground hills as long wavy lines.  Draw the meadow in the foreground as a straight line.

DEVELOPING THE FORM.
Use short choppy jagged lines to work out the many cliffs and folds of the mountain.
Use shorter jagged lines to mark off the snow caps on the tops of the mountains. Do not just make them straight but give them an interesting shape.

SHADING AND TEXTURE
Decide which side the sun is on, and take your time to add the shadows on the opposite side of each mountain. Use dots, small scribble marks and short choppy lines to give the sides of the mountains some texture. The farthest mountains will be lighter and not have much texture.

The rolling hills have trees on top, and the meadow has a line of trees where they meet the hills. Draw these with short up and down scribbly marks. 

(c) Adron D. 1/26/16