1 Year Anniversary Drawing

1 Year Anniversary Drawing Tube. Duration : 3.88 Mins.

Hey everybody! Thanks for a wonderful first year on youtube. I would say it has been quite a success having gained over 950 subscribers. I have had a lot of support from my subscribers as well as my friends here on youtube. Here is a nice beach landscape I decided to draw. I drew this after one of my favorite landscapes I drew back over a year ago. Supplies: Strathmore bristol vellum paper 14x17 Sennelier oil pastels Blending stumps Drawing time: about 2 hours For this drawing, I started out with the sky and outlining the clouds. I brought the sky down to the first 3rd of the page and stopped. I then started to work on the clouds and bring in some shadows to them using light blue as the shadow color. I then used white to put in smaller clouds towards the horizon to show the clouds receding into the background. I used a ruler to make the horizon line as straight as I could. After which I used a darker set of blues for the water. I worked the water line to a point in the drawing and then started to put in some details of a waves in the distance all the way to the large wave in the foreground. The way I like to do waves is to have the color light towards the base and as it moves up, the color gets lighter to show the light going through the wave and towards the crest I like to make them dark to show a shadow from the foam on top of the waves. In where there is an eye to the wave, I make it yellow to show a larger amount of light going through it. The next part I outlined the ...