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It is essential for a composition to create a composition with the right amount of lightness and darkness. As an artist you need to know what parts of the elements of your landscape painting should have more light. Even if there will be a certain disagreement between the lights and darks, you will sense it. Hence, we give you an instance how the light would be in different major elements of your painting during the daytime.

Sky- It has the maximum amount of light and thus it should be presented in the lightest shape.

• Horizontal- Any flat surface in the composition should also be light as it reflects the light falling from the sky completely.

• Slanted and Diagonal- Slopes and roofs should be a little darker.

• Upright-The completely vertical elements should be shown the darkest. For example- The tree trunks.

It isn’t necessary to include everything that you see in your landscape painting. Decide the focal point, size of the canvas and the elements that you are going to include and exclude.  The tip here would be to eliminate small unnecessary things like street signboards or buildings. Just try to make it less cluttered.

Many times a landscape is very beauteous but is so busy that making all of it will make the painting look really busy. The easiest way to simplify your landscape is to group shapes and eliminate some objects. Bushes and trees that look a bit wrongly placed can be moved or removed.

Just like every color has various hues, nature is full of various hues of green. So, keep making the green color lighter and darker by mixing the color of the sunlight in your landscape painting. Learn to vary the greens in color. Mix some red to make them a bit dull. You can even use gray in place of green for far-off trees.

For every artist, making paintings is quite of an experience in itself. Indian painters have been painting landscapes since time unknown. Maybe, because this is the most easily available subject matter. On can find it around him or her no matter where he is. Other reason might be because such paintings are always in demand.

Nevertheless, while making a landscape painting even the experienced painters commit mistakes that spoil the beauty of their painting in a moment. Though mistakes are a part of learning, none of you would want to ruin your paintings. Would you?

I like to use different pens for different things. I use thick markers for large shadows because they’re big and chunky and cover a lot of paper quickly. I like Sharpies for smaller shadows and thick continuous lines. A blue writing pen might be good for clouds, waves, or anything that might look cool in blue. Consider all characteristics of your pens, like color, thickness, and so on. Be creative and stay alert for any pen that can make your work distinct.

Simply changing the way you hold your pen can add an extra dimension to your pen and ink drawings and make them special and unique so that they stand out from other artists. I like to hold my pen at the back whenever possible because the looseness in my lines often present unexpected opportunities in my work. If your drawings are usually very tight and controlled, give this method a try, you might surprise yourself with the wonderful accidents that can happen.

The kind of marks you're making will shape the feel and look of your pencil/pen drawing. Things like how fast you draw a line and the weight you put into a stroke will change the look of the line. "A heavy line 
is dark and definite; a lightly drawn line is pale and exploratory," says Spicer. "When you are starting out, try to avoid uncertain, feathery marks."

How to paint cartoon characters

In this guide, i will demonstrate my process for painting cartoon.

Start by choosing your reference. Many cartoon characters are popular. Therefore, drawing cartoon characters is similar to drawing the outlines for a portrait, you must be accurate! Plan for your drawing to fit inside the paper sheet. Then check for proportions. Many cartoon characters are a collections of different types of curves. Curves can be body parts, muscles or objects(ex:face).

When drawing, pay attention to overlapping. Overlapping means an object that covers part of another object.Often, objects are partially hidden by a body part.One way is to draw the full object and then erase the part that is overlapped.

For straight objects, you can use a ruler.

Drawing process

First step is drawing with a pencil.The pencil-drawing step is the hardest. Accuracy is the key for likeness.

The main advantage of drawing with a pencil is the ability to erase and correct mistakes.

It is important NOT to press hard while drawing, in order to prevent any scars or dents on the drawing paper.The second step is drawing with a technical pen.Technical pens (also fine liners) come with different nib sizes.A smaller nib is great for small details, while a bigger nib is better for thicker contour lines.

Remember: By pressing gently when drawing with a pencil, it is easy to erase the pencil marks.

The last step is painting with poster colors (or any other medium).Each cartoon character has its own unique colors.If you want to paint accurately (the original character), you need to pay attention to color attributes.

After choosing the colors you want to use, it is time to paint your figures. And paint the background too.

Summary With practice, you will be able to draw anything accurately.

Drawing from observation with a pencil. Drawing with a technical pen (inking) on top of the pencil lines.

Then, erasing the pencil lines (when the pen ink is dry).

Coloring (with different mediums)

Paying attention to all color attributes.

Different  brands (and different types of paper) produce different results.

Cartoon characters have outlines (contour). When drawing realism, there are no visible lines.