Sketching for Seascape Oil Painting

Video Transcript

"So now we have our selected picture here nice and close above our canvas. And we're about ready to start sketching. Start getting the basic outlines of this picture onto the canvas with our charcoal. Ok, so let's take our charcoal here and really what we're doing is we're just drawing in some very, very basic shapes. What I mean by basic, I mean I'm not drawing this whole thing that we have here going on. I just want to get the basic outline and shape of it and that's it. Then I'm moving on. So, this is also an opportunity for you to draw the basic horizon lines, here being the water. I'm just drawing a couple of little steeples for some of the trees, one being the mother tree and a bunch of little ones here. And you also can go in here and just very, very lightly start drawing in what's going to be some of the water lines. All along the bottom here. Again, not too much, you just want to give yourself a little road map. And also come back up here and maybe draw in a couple of regions of lighter clouds based on the picture, kind of come in at the top here. Now, when you're all said and done you're going to have a basic, I mean the most basic of shapes. You don't want to, we're doing a painting today. We're not drawing. But you have a basic shape here and when you're at this point you can move on to applying the paint and colors."