This isn’t the drawing from the last lessen.
We had to bring a picture of a town. So I found this beautiful picture of an old part of a german town. I thought it would have make an beautiful drawing.
But the assignment was to make a ink drawing of the houses and the trees in the picture.
That was where I paniced.
If you draw something with ink you use a technique called crosshatching. Which means that you draw a lot of parallel and crossing lines.
A crosshatched tree looks nothing like a real tree.
Then the teacher started talking about coloring the shades and the feeling of panic became even stronger.
Shade? What shade? I didn’t see any shade. While the rest of the group where still painting and drawing I gathered my things and fled.
After a few days I realised that drawing in ink was just the same as drawing with pencil. I just had to imagine how the drawing would look.
It took a few days more to realise that the pictures in my mind don’t have shades. They have shape, color and structure but no shade.
I suppose that is because the tree at 10 am is the same as the tree at 4 pm. The light comes from a different direction but it’s still the same tree.
Which branch is the best
This drawing is how a ink drawing of a tree might look. It isn’t a real tree but it is a tree.
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