Drawings are flat versions of a three dimensional world.
There are three main ways you can make things look far away or close to you in your landscape drawing
1. Make things that are farther away pale using light marks and shading
2. Draw things that are father away smaller
3. Use big drawing marks on things closest to you and small marks farther away
Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh
The buildings on the left get smaller so the ones higher up the page look farthest away
The marks or texture used to create the path next to the building get lighter and smaller as they go awau from you
Landscape Drawing Vincent Van Gogh
The marks that show the cut grass or crops at the bottom of the drawing are bigger than the marks used for the distant buildings and sky
Use the window frame as an edge of your drawing
Drawing by Lancelot Richardson
Straight on is easiest so that the frame follows the edge of the page
You can draw the window at an angle to you, this is much harder to do when working from observation but will make a more interesting drawing
Look at all the different marks used on the Austen Pinkerton drawing
No window frame, but look how dark and light shading and tones have been used the show buildings that are close to you and buildings that are far apart
