How to draw a picture of a scene viewed through a grassy foreground.
Sometimes you see pictures like this where the grass or reeds or something is close and the landscape is viewed through it. I thought it would be a good practice project for some students so I put together a little handout for it which became this worksheet below.
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This worksheet is for students but it is helpful for anyone who wants to learn to draw or practice. Sometimes a teacher or artist just needs a project to get things going and this drawing worksheet is perfect as an activity to start.
When I created this worksheet, I did not expect that anyone would recreate the drawing exactly as I did. I offer this lesson more as guidance. The student may begin with my design and then modify it on their own.
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PRINTABLE PROJECT NOTES
Start with the horizon. Do not put the horizon line in the exact center it is boring and looks like you cut the picture in half.
Even though the background scene is going to be part hidden by the grasses you still want to have a fully developed design. Draw this lightly so you can erase parts later when you add the grasses in the foreground.
Use basic shapes like rectangles, triangles, squares, and half-circles to design the farm scene.
Keep the farm scene interesting by placing one building behind another. Give the second building a different angle.
Develop the background landscape by adding trees, or distant hills. When you draw one row of trees behind the other it gives the picture a sense of distance.
Do not overdo the design, you just want to have a design so you can build upon it at a later stage. Besides if you do too much work on the background you may feel bad when you place the grasses on top and thereby hide all the work.
Draw some guidelines to start the grasses with, have them bending in the wind.
The grasses are like wheat and have seeds. The seeds are drawn like ovals pointing inward and downward. Use guidelines to keep them even on both sides of the stalks. They get smaller toward the top. After you draw the seeds, erase the extra lines and add shadows to give them shape.
Add details to the background but do not overdraw the distant background. Add texture to the trees and light shadows to the trees. The shadows in the distance are lighter than the shadows near the front.
The fields have grass. Draw the grass in random rows. The distant rows may be only horizontal lines. The rows become more detailed and darker as they progress to the foreground.
Add details and shading to the farm. Use shading and light to keep the structures separate.
Put some clouds in the sky because an empty sky looks incomplete.
Happy Drawing!
(c) Adron 3/10/2021
