In this session of “Ask Jack” (April 2021), John Muir Laws shows us tips and tricks for drawing bare trees against landscapes and using Tombow markers, ballpoint pen, and more to render waterfalls across our pages. Read More
Category: Drawing Landscapes
Tips, tricks, and techniques to help you draw landscapes.
Block Diagrams and Circles
In this “Ask Jack” session, John Muir Laws demonstrates how to create visuals of cycles for observations of natural phenomena, as well as a review of how to create a block diagram. Read More
NJC: Episode 37, Block Diagram
Learn how to make a Block Diagram to help you describe the ecosystems you explore. This is a visual thinking tool that will help you think three-dimensionally as you explore. About The Nature Journal Connection Video Series In partnership with the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco (https://creativity.org/), I worked with a team to produce Read More
Coastal Cliffs and Waves
Let John Muir Laws show you some problem-solving he did around drawing coastal landscapes. Play with different strategies and learn some fast ways to capture the effects of waves hitting the coastal cliffs, using watercolor, a white crayon, and pencil. Read More
Water Soluble Pencils
Join John Muir Laws in this “Ask Jack” session, where we explore creating a river landscapito using watercolor pencils, as well as some of the challenges in using them. Read More
Ask Jack: How to Draw Rocks!
Learn how to draw and emphasize planes and shadows of rocks using a ballpoint pen. Read More
Gouache Landscapitos on Toned Paper
Learn how to paint quick landscapitos on toned paper with watercolor and gouache. For this workshop, we will use the light value gouache palette for the lights and watercolor for the darks. The system is fast, simple, and fun. To create your own gouache kit like the one John Muir Laws is using, please view Read More
Winter Trees
In this Ask Jack session, we look at the shapes of deciduous trees in winter and learn some tree tricks from John Muir Laws! Read More
Perspectives, Part 2
Let’s build on the perspectives basics we explored in the previous workshop. Today we practice finding the vanishing points in actual places and use those to show depth in our illustrations. Read More
Let’s Rock! Drawing Geology
Learn how to visualize and draw geologic cross-sections and block diagrams for field sketching. This will help you draw what you see, and see what you draw! These techniques can be adapted for all kinds of visual thinking applications. Read More