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Dunollie Castle sketch.
6B pencil on drawing paper.
A preparatory sketch of the ruins of Dunollie Castle, Oban, Scotland seen from Gallanach Road.
Kisimul Castle sketch.
6B pencil on drawing paper.
There wasn’t much going on in the reference photo so I changed the orientation to portrait and added some foreground diagonals and colour notes.
Pencil sketch, 6B pencil on paper.
The Isle of Mull behind the silhouette of the Isle of Kerrera. A view from Oban, mainland Scotland where the sunsets are spectacular.
Pencil sketches, A6 sketchbook (and a pebble holding the page flat).
I'd like to thank @edinburgh-by-the-sea for the help that have unknowingly given me.
I was struggling to draw landscapes because I couldn't simplify them until I found photos by @edinburgh-by-the-sea .
The composition of their photos is wonderful, they have an 'eye' which is distinctively theirs and it really appeals to me.
So I studied their photos and made super quick, shape sketches of them and now I'm able to see in a way that can simplify a landscape.
Huge thanks again to @edinburgh-by-the-sea, your creativity has made such a difference to me.
P.S. I hope you don't mind me posting my versions of your photos. I forgot to ask first and they don't do your photos justice at all.
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