In this lesson, instructor Steve Huston will focus on the elements of design for landscape drawing. Steve will show you how to organize your artwork into quadrants to build a balanced yet complex composition. You will study how to establish framing to provoke emotions for your work, utilize perspective, and work with symmetry and asymmetry.

This lesson belongs to the course Introduction to Landscape Drawing. In this crash course, Steve Huston will overview the principles of landscape drawing. You will learn how to use the concepts of gesture and structure in landscape art. You will explore the basic strategies to achieve effective compositional designs. Steve will show you how to apply the laws of light to drawing landscape scenes. After this course, you will be able to make strong design choices in your artwork.

Throughout this course, you’ll have access to the NMA community for feedback and critiques to improve your work as you progress.