How Do You Draw Snowy Pines In Colored Pencil?
Have you ever wanted to send original art for holiday cards to special people, or seen those attractive blank cards available in art supply shops and card shops? Here’s how to create a beautiful winter design in colored pencils that will show your closest loved ones how much you care. Look at photos of snowy pines and bare winter saplings, study how the snow lays on the branches. Choose a reference. Mine is actually a serious drawing I did several years ago, which I’ll change a little for this demonstration. It’s what gave me the idea for this step by step project, since I loved it when I first did it in my sketchbook. Using a soft graphite pencil or charcoal pencil, do a small value drawing of the scene as you’d like to see it in color. I’m moving the pines around a bit so that this becomes a new drawing. Don’t do this directly on the greeting card, use a sheet of drawing paper or even scratch paper for it, this is preliminary. Sketchbook paper is good enough though, that if you like
