Below you‘ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial video for how to draw Scenery and a Scenery Coloring Page. Students can learn more about how to add space to their landscape drawing.

How to Draw Scenery Tutorial Video

Learning how to draw scenery can be a fun and rewarding activity for students and has lots of benefits. It can encourage their imagination, observation skills and offer some fine motor skill practice at the same time. This tutorial in particular asks students to draw a brand new landscape scene in three layers – the close up one with a large building, then a smaller medium size one, and a smaller one in the back. It’s a reminder for them to consider their fore, middle and background as they draw, and remember that the further away things are, the smaller they appear to be.

When students draw new outdoor scenes, it’s also a good reminder to encourage them to be as creative with color as they want to be. Buildings don’t always have to be dark. In some places they are white, or pastel, with very simple doors and windows. The same goes for mountains. They may be brown when you see them up close, but often have a different cast when viewed at different times of the day. Choosing colors just for fun is what artists have been doing for centuries!

Getting Started with Drawing Guides

The best way to get students off to a good start to any drawing lesson is to show them how to use guides as a reference point.

You may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site have a dashed line running through the center of each step, in both horizontal and vertical directions. If students make their own centered lines on their own paper, before drawing, they will have an easy reference to follow.

Drawing skills are all about getting the size and placement of lines on paper, so having some visual reference point to get started, will always help anyone learn how to be a little more accurate.