To begin with, I looked into real life landscapes to practice value drawing; as I have never done this before, I wanted to get a better grasp on any techniques I could use in the process.
In my first try, I decided to use a more painter-like approach; I found this quite challenging. I was unsure of how to use the paint brushes to get the traditional brushstrokes I seemed, so I experimented with them a lot. However, it allowed me to think a lot more about opacity and density, as the foliage in the reference picture I used had gaps in it that I tried recreating.
The next three drawings are a lot more graphic in style than the first, as I wanted to see if it would be more comfortable to use the ‘cut out’ tool to create my scene. I enjoyed this a lot – it allowed me to concentrate more about the depth and texture of the scene.
Here are some of the references I used: