Commonly and understandably, people believe that art is created by applying a medium (graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, pastels) on to surface. Artwork can also be produced by taking away, of a medium, using erasers, referred to as Reductive Drawing. Use this picture as a reference photo for the following project. I will be using a Woodless Charcoal Pencil, Stump, Pentel Clic Eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Elastomer 2.3 round eraser, and a Kneaded Eraser. The support used is a sheet of 9×12 Bristol Paper.
Step 1- Sharpen a Woodless Charcoal Pencil or rub a charcoal pencil over sandpaper to get charcoal dust on your paper. Take a folded Kleenex and rub the dust on your paper. Leave the edges white.
Step 2- Using the “Check back method” begin the drawing using a Pentel Clic eraser. When drawing with an eraser, lightly pull out the value using the edge of an eraser. If the eraser is round, carefully cut off the tip with sharp scissors or an X-Acto knife. Hold the eraser like a pencil and draw the hill in the foreground. Draw the stems of the flowers and leaves with a feathered stroke. Draw the petals with the Tombow eraser. Dab the hill with a Kneaded Eraser.
Step 3- Erase the mountains on the right, in the middle ground. *Notice the hill in the foreground overlaps the mountains in the middle ground. Using small hatching strokes, erase the trees on the mountains.
Step 4- Erase the mountains in the background. By overlapping, the mountains look farther away. Add detail on the mountains using squiggles, zig zags, hatching, and cross hatching. Pinch a Kneaded Eraser and lightly make horizontal feathered strokes to depict the current of the water. *Notice the hatching is closer together the further away the water is.
Step 5- Use a Kneaded Eraser to make the clouds. Add additional details and flowers to the Landscape.
Step 6- Soften the clouds and lines with a stump.