Ways on How to Draw Realistic Wind with Ordinary Pencil

Have you ever faced this proverb “God helps those who help themselves”? It determines that only various attempts bring about a desirable effect. Thus, no matter who you are, a beginner or a professional artist, an obvious method of how you can hone your skills is to constantly repeat the same actions along with some objects. Hence, the obvious case is drawing a cool fall wind gust and its realistic effects. For example, when the blast causes a tree to sway, involving spinning, colorful leaves. Let’s begin with this step-by-step tutorial of how to draw wind in autumn foliage.

Necessary Drawing Tools

First things first, let’s find out which tools will be necessary in your art suite for your attempts. In fact, don’t be afraid, there is nothing extraordinary, but there is a ordinary tool suite for artists such as canvas, an eraser and hard and soft core pencils. Furthermore, you may want to use a device that performs shading and a sharpener, because the softer the graphite requires frequent sharpening. In addition, you can embellish your picture, thus an overview of top paper for colored pencils turns your drawing into a masterpiece with the utensils that are worth being among your the most favorite pigmented devices.

Step 1: Let's Depict the Ground Line

The first thing is the tool to be used is the wooden pencil HB. Place a piece of paper and put it in portrait orientation in front of you. After that, virtually divide this paper into 3 horizontally equivalent fragments and contour the lower edge only. It will indicate the ground border. As a result, the tree and other plants will be depicted there.

The second stage is, starting to depict a nature scene of a swaying large wooden plant. Let’s make it bending to the right. It’s not a secret, that, the tree curves from the lower part, thus contour a bow of the trunk. Another thing that you can’t neglect is that the bottom part is constantly wider than the upper part, thus you ought to diminish the trunk at the top. This impact can be performed with light hatching, but, the tree outline can be covered with soft strokes as well; this will add some authenticity to your picture.

Another significant thing is limbs - of course, the tree shouldn’t be a bold trunk. Besides, drawing branches doesn’t require lots of effort either; the only secret is to contour them swimmingly and prevent rugged areas. Identically to the massive trunk, limbs should narrow down at the end. You should avoid any evident marks but hatching as you covered the trunk, as an alternative they can be thinner than the main hatching. This is the reason why there is a piece of advice to sharpen the core to a fine angle before you start performing this stage.

Step 3: Draw Wind Flows

Finally, we’ve approached the big break - drawing wind flows. This will be performed with the help of drawing an air flow direction that constantly moves. Do you remember that the described plant is already tilted to the right, as a result, the obvious wind flow is from left to the right? Delicately, make some wind gusts, and use lengthier strokes spinning at the end; this will visualize a blown air mass when it loses its power. The breeze is better to visualize with shorter and fitful marks.

This stage entails the depiction of wind intensity; this can be determined with foliage and plants flying through the air. This time, less hard core will be more suitable; which means you should use a B2 lead. An obvious thing is that all the leaves have to fly according to the wind direction - from left to right. However, some spinning can also be present, since the direction can’t be the same all the time.

The leaf shape should not be flat, otherwise they would look like unrealistic, thus experiment with everything a little bit curved - this is a secret of professional thinking. For instance, imagine leaves in nature: carried by the blast, they fly around unevenly and become twisted and bent. Volume is an alternative secret approach that brings realism to your picture; for this purpose hatching and shading details that are pretty convenient.

Step 5: Make Ground Realistic with Stones and Grass

Step 6: Shading Work

The last step is, adding more and more realistic things. One of them is shadow, which is an integral part of a lively picture, and it’s filled with volume and shine. Consequently, taking into account that the place of the light source doesn’t matter, eventually, there appears a shadow, hence outline the approximate form of the tree’s shadow, and shade with light touch strokes. However, don’t overdo it at the time when you are applying light strokes the shadow. Shading is also important. Thus, shading the bottom part of details, such as limbs, may give them, let’s say a stereo effect and make them more tangible. Volume can be utilized for the air flows too: first hatch and then add the shading along the wind course. This result can be achieved with a harder lead, thus take either #5 or H2 graphite.

Conclusions

Hopefully, this tutorial was quite understandable and simple in order to deliver your desirable outcome, particularly, realistic wind. Given a chance, you don’t need to spend too much time in order to research how this effect can be performed. Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try and apply things that you would like, rather than attempting and honing your art mastery all the time. Additional inspiration at Pinterest.