Drawing digitally on the go with CLIP STUDIO PAINT
Tips & advice for drawing nature outside!
ONE BENEFIT of drawing digitally is that you can draw anywhere as long as you have your tablet or smartphone with you. Whether sketching on your phone to nish painting at home, or painting full artworks on your iPad, you can easily paint and draw instantly without any preparation or tidying-up!
The painting app Clip Studio Paint is available on all major platforms including iPad, Android, and iOS, giving you freedom to draw on the go. And with a wide range of brushes mimicking natural media such as watercolors and oil paints, as well as pattern brushes and stamps, you don’t have any limitations on your creativity. Experiment with various media to nd your perfect painting style.
In this mini tutorial, we’ll look at some techniques for drawing various foliage types, such as trees and leaves that you can use when drawing outside on your tablet.
When drawing from life, you don’t have to make everything detailed. Add details mainly on the areas you want to focus on. Usually, the focus is located in the foreground or middle ground, but never in the far background.
DRAWING TREES
1 First, sketch out the main forms of the tree.
2 Paint the clusters of foliage with a large brush.
3 Start adding shape with highlights and shadows, still with a large brush.
4 With a small brush, paint in details like leaves. In this example, we added some gaps between leaf clusters too.
DRAWING LEAVES
Objects in the foreground should be painted in more detail, so sometimes the leaves in the foreground need to be drawn individually. To draw individual leaves, start with a centre line of action. Different plants have different patterns and structures. Below are some examples of where to nd these lines. With these lines it is easier to distinguish the upper und under side of the leaves when thinking of them in 3D space. Different leaves have different kinds of shapes, but they usually have a central line just like the spine of the human figure. This line can be used as a line of action to draw a leaf. Above are some leaves in different angles and poses that can be drawn from just one similar central line.
Conclusion
What do you think? Ready to start drawing outside? You can enjoy painting outside digitally with Clip Studio Paint on your iPad, Android tablet, or smartphone, as well as Windows and macOS computers. Get up to three months free on any device when you sign up for a free trial; scan the QR code to learn more and start drawing with freedom on your tablet!