Lesson 2 landscape

After making a couple of rough thumbnails, I attempted this sketch, which I would further refine were I to do this over.

 

I wanted the soccer net in this park to be the central feature, so it (and the red house behind it) are framed by the tree trunks and the foliage off in the distance.

 

While I tried to render the various landscape planes according to the brush markers that I had on me, I found the three tree trunks to be most interesting when I looked this over at the end.

 

The one toward the right was the most "blown out" because of the direct sun. For the most part, all the detail of the bark was obscured. Similarly the tree behind it was in uniform shade. Also, only bulk shadow shapes were visible, with very little bark detail.

 

The leftmost tree was in dappled sunlight, and while I could see some detail in the light parts, the shadow sections were pretty uniform.

 

Thus the level of detail that can be rendered in a drawing depends not only on how close/far away the object is, but also on the lighting conditions. The harshly lit tree (right) had the strongest and hardest edges, while the dappled tree to the left had an outline that had both weak and strong edge definitions, depending on how the dapples were falling.

Done