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How does one go about learning to draw landscapes? Most of the

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How does one go about learning to draw landscapes? Most of the books and tutorials recommended here are about figure drawing and gesture drawing, and I feel like they're not helping me a lot when it comes to drawing landscapes and backgrounds.
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>>2409944

do it over and over and over enough times
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profit
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>>2409959
Well, obviously.

But when you're learning to draw people, you'll usually work on fundamentals such as anatomy, construction, and so on. I was wondering if there are similar principles for landscape drawing other than perspective.
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>>2409965

I guess that's why I don't consider anatomy a fundamental. It's exactly the same really. Just that now you have to manage edges more carefully, think about materials more, shadows. Big new issues you might have as someone who studied figures primarily: composition, simplification of stuff (like bunch of leaves etc), value key, and like you said perspective.

I just don't think theres any way around failing a million times to learn it. Nothing you'll read anywhere will help.
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I'd recommend watching The Joy of Painting because it will teach you how to make depth and detail in landscapes, even if you want to draw and not paint
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Landscape drawing resources.

J.D. Harding books, John Ruskin's Lecture Manuscripts on Gutenberg. Both are also a good primer for traditional drawing tools. Add the usual perspective books, drawing with material X and some modern book about drawing light/direct drawing and you got a lot.
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so for landscapes is it better to draw one in greyscale to get the values down and then once you get that down, move onto color? or just jump into color?
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>>2410556

Try both and see what feels better to you. There is no 'better' method. I never start anything in greyscale unless I want it to stay greyscale.
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