How To Draw Landscapes, Trees, Grass, Foliage, Water, Using Graphite pencils 

Amazing! Who needs yoga or relaxation classes when we have your drawing videos.

Great lesson showing how to detail a landscape, forest

I just found your RU-vid drawings, and really wanted to thank you for offering your time and effort, I know that this requires a lot of work on your part, but I am sure that there are a small "army" of folks like my self that are truly appreciative! I have laid down my pencils for awhile now, but after watching. I am going to get back to it! I really like your work and again want to say thank you for your tutelage, sacrifice and inspiration.

Nie-sa-mo-wi-te.!!!:) Im from Poland.:)

Beautiful, and your voice is so relaxing, could fall asleep listening to you! Thank you for sharing with us.

I tried this one and even though I lacked the Derwent Pencil Eraser with brush it still ended up as the best pencil sketch I've ever done. Without that eraser I wasn't able to get the tiny, bright leaf highlights you demonstrated but it was great nonetheless. Thank you so much for this. Subscribed.

This looks so lovely. Thank you for taking the time to make tutorials like this. You make a beginner feel like a pro.

Sempre fantástico. Obras de arte perfeitas, admiráveis. Parabéns professor 👏👏👏. Minhas sinceras considerações 👏👏👏.

Te vagy zseni! Köss biztosítást a kezeidre. Nagyon híres leszel, tudom. Köszönöm!

The artist voice was so relaxing I couldn't keep my eyes open the drawing was just perfect,thanks for sharing!!!

Smoothie, I never tire of watching your tutorials! This is my favorite and I'm getting up the courage to try it.

I just love this. Wonderful touch thank you.

It was interesting to watch how this man draws

You made that look so easy! Your a very good teacher.

I could watch you draw all day! I have done more dramatic people with graphite but I think I will have to try a landscape after watching you. Thank you for tips they have really helped me.

Absolutely stunning again..... Thank you Smoothie!!! ;) Kind regards, Lineke

WOW! What a serene scene! It truly spoke to me…I want to be in that place. Beautiful work! ❤😊

So therapeutic. I love the way that detail slowly but surely appears. Thank you.

It's great! Thank you for sharing.

Every time I view one of your videos, I amass so many sketching techniques. Based my first sketch (ever) on watching one of the landscapes with trees, bridge, water. Then, went after some masterwork oil paintings to copy (Hudson River School), using various grades of graphite (trying to figure out different grades since I don't know about them), and keeping my laptop in front of me to take your lesson. ALMOST FORGOT ... the laying down of powder graphite to establish tonal values! And, your use of various erasers to give impression of light. Realized I had not used them in last two sketches, but powder makes such a difference for tonal values. I keep a jar w/lid closeby to scrape graphite since I use various grades. Will graduate to 2B soon, I hope. Thank you so very much for your videos .. as I've said before, you are brilliant .. as an artist and teacher. So great.

Beautiful drawn. Thank you for this step by step tutorial

wow,a beautiful scene you have great imagination, explained the process really well.

Как Вы хорошо рисуете, все доступно показываете и рассказываете, большое спасибо Вам за эти уроки я учусь на ваших рисунках, мне ваш стиль рисования подошел легко, я на пенсии и у меня времени много сейчас, я хотела всегда научиться рисовать и что легло на душу это ваши рисунки, учусь с нуля, в школе вообще рисовать неумела одноклассницы мне рисовали, я могла только срисовывать, еще раз Благодарю Вас, Вы помогли исполнить мне мою мечту.

Fabulous technique Thank you for your time and talent

Hi there thank you for the lessons. You are a fabulous artist and teacher. Lots of these youtube artists just show us how they do it and don't bother to teach us "how" You teach perfectly and your landscapes are fantastic. I love your uploads so much. Thanks again Estelle 👍🏻

Hi smoothie77, thanks very much for this one!.... you're my "master" . cause your sensibility

Your remark near the end of your video about being an "opportunist drawer/painter" - I think what you mean is you are reacting to what's happening on the page (an expression that Canadian watercolourist Angela Fehr uses). I think that's a gift of a natural artist. For most of us, that doesn't come naturally, but we can hope it comes with practice and experience.

You were as good as word now you have given me a serious challenge ,thanks

Good tips looking forward to trying them out

Thank you for sharing your drawing with us.

Amazing I love your use of the graphite powder..... wonderful videos and your easy narration.

Love these tutorials thanks so much

Simply awesome! Learned a lot in terms of shading and highlighting with eraser. Thank you

Nice and important tips sir

well done! Thanks for sharing and all your expert tips on drawing.

What an inspiration! I need to get one of those tiny erasers! Thank you!!!

i love your technique amdreally appreciate the time you put into these

Hello Smoothie.. just like to thank you for your really wonderful videos. The little tips n methods you employ are fascinating and so helpful. I thoroughly enjoy your presentation style and manner. The tone of your voice and low key modesty is a pleasure to listen to. I cannot imagine you to be anything other than an extremely nice human being and I appreciate so much, your talent and the inspiration you are giving to me and all the viewers lucky enough to find you. I will continue to watch all your presentations and this comment applies to all of them. I wish you and yours safety, happiness and contentment. Warm regards from Rob - Australian guy living in Thailand. PS my drawings are getting better each time and I look forward every challenge you present to me.

Another excellent demo, well done and thanks, will have to dig me old pencils out.

what idiot would give this the thumbs down ,,this is true art thankyou smoothie i love watching your art

watching this to become a better artist and your giving me so much more insight! thank you sm!❤

Just amazing Smoothie77 , makes me want to get right on it !

Really nice composition and technique. Great creative talent! Robt

Love it thank you for sharing

so nice to watch.

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. Hope to see many more. 👍

Great stuff, thx for sharing.

Pleasure to watch. Well done!

uaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuu, i realy have to thanks the people who shares the knowledge and techniques , it realy realy helped me a lot, i could see progress in a hour more than years of self-taught drawing

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing your techniques I'm very new to graphite techniques and this has opened my eyes to why i couldn't get the detail i was hoping for. Thanks again for sharing.

I really like your videos they're very informative they're going to make me a better artist for sure I just can't drink martinis and watch you draw so fast though makes my head spin

Wow - this is impressive - I've gotta give this a go - but certainly don't expect anything so stunning - don't know til you try. Thanks for sharing - that's amazing and so generous - Sue from Sydney

Amazing ❤️

Very inspiring. I've always loved graphite but never allowed myself to just create a hazy background to start off with, like you might also do with charcoal. It really helps to start visualizing a scene from the imagination like you've done. I have to admit that I was a little sad to see the trees on the left disappear; they had a mystical look. I'm now a subscriber and hope to see more videos soon!

Simply awesome!! I am learning so much from your works. Thank you!!

Absolutely amazing!!! I am going to try to draw this way. Thanks for sharing

lovely woods, wonderful.

What an amazingly beautiful picture, really inspiring thank you.

What a master you are. So inspired. Thank you so much for the video and your time.

Beautiful🌟Ty

With this video you've gained a new subscriber! I absolutely love the way you take the time to explain each step in an easy to understand way. I'm a beginner artist so I was a little hesitant to go into something as complex and difficult as entire landscapes, so I was really shocked at what I'd produced by the end through your tutorial. You have a really soothing voice too, which is really relaxing to listen to while drawing. Thank you for this video, it's helped me a lot :)

Fantastic pencil work jzieve

This is out of the world ..👏💐

H smoothie, great pictures! Thanks for the work with the water:) Looking forward to your next videos...

Beautifully done.

Beautiful work, looks like a dream! Great job!

no words just outstanding and congratulations

fantastic...great. i love its,eager to see with watercolor

Wonderful tutorials

Nice to see the process completely. Thank you very much.

Its my first time seeing your videos. I was expecting a simple little land scape drawing and from the very first step you blew up my thinking of how to sketch landscapes. Im completely new to sketching so i am not familiar with any of the tecniques. When you poured out graphite on the paper and blened it and then used an eraser for the background; i was done. Thats not some simple sketch; thats a detailed black and white photo negative man. The depth and detail you made is incredable. Wow

Incredible!

Stunning...... Your calm voice just "draws" (sorry...couldn't help it) me into this lovely drawing.. Thanks for the video. You just got a new subscriber....Blessings

So interesting, I am very passionate about my work and this really helped

Absolutely stunning, I can only dream of doing something this good! Thanks for sharing.

Alas my search for a "go to" artist for inspiration and instruction has been found!! And you were right there on Utube all the while. Thanks so much for being there.

I love it.

Beautiful.

Beautiful!! Thank you!

Thanks, I learned a lot from this. I think this graphite method will help me with creativity. I'm working on my first one.

You make it look easy! Enjoyed. Will check out more soon.

So beautiful! 💜✨

Hi, really enjoyed watching you, it was very relaxing that and your voice. Graphite has always been my favorite medium, you can do it anywhere so I've always doodled and turned out a few decent sketches. Thanks for the inspiration to grow with it. God bless 🙋😎

Really, you draw so good, when I see your videos thumbnails, I think they’re pictures!

excellent video helped me immensely and learned so much I like the way you keep it simple and not try to complicate it and and also tell it's going to take some time to be patient

So beautiful! Your videos are so inspiring!

love it! thanks!

great video

Hi Jon 🙂.... Thirty years of practice shows up in your hands just like that...i loved this one... You might like to kill me actually 😀 but when i saw you work in the morning light...my God those trees felt so real... Which i wasn't able to see that clearly in the evening light!... Since you already do such stuffs regularly...i know it's too much of a sacrifice to ask for another half of the tutorial on which it can be seen clearly.. Maybe do that in the morning 😀... But i know when you say it's something that you enjoy doing.. The details.. The abstract, over and over again.. Getting it to reality.. And slightly drifting away from it, to get to your vision of it.. Which is approved under artistic licence 😂... It's would just be fun for you as well... You could speak about the technique or the tool and then get back again... And say just one sentence while you implement that technique.. When you talk and draw i go over your video at least twice...coz either i am mesmerized looking at what you are doing.. But you say important things too 😀🤦‍♀️... These days i am watching your art like asmr..i sleep while watching them... Is so relaxing I love the video logs that you do around your place... Till date i had thought myself to be an idiot clicking what i feel for.. They make great photos... Never thought I would dare try translating foliage with graphite... Wonderful control over the shades and pressures you have... No tooth damage... Where i stay...i am getting the clutch pencil but guess what, it comes with all the leads from HB, 2b, 4b, 6B... Etc but the pack of 12 or 24 or 40 or for that matter even one 2b lead seperately isn't available here🙄... I just bought Derwent pensil eraser and stumps... Coz you said...i am trying to get courage to try this while i wait for my cold pressed ca grain acid free A4 cartridge paper to be delivered to me This comment is so longgggg.. But you said you like to read them.. Am i actually sounding like speaking to you in real...gosh!

it was amazing

I've decided to start with this one, it will be different to what I've done previously and I love trees! Hope I do them justice but nothing ventured nothing gained x

Beautiful job my friend. I am inspired x 10.

Very nice well done and very helpful

Me encantó mucho , tus paisajes son muy bonitos y realistas...podrías hacer mas paisajes de Londres , Paris , Inglaterra , y de otros paises que tienen vistas hermosas? porfavor? y gracias por enseñar tan bonitos paisajes...

It's a beautiful job by the way 😊

So inspiring! I dream one day I can draw like that :)

Sobrenatural 💜 my hero 🙋

You are great!!!😲

Thank you for your videos. You have inspired me to take up my charcoal and pencils again which I have not done in more than 30 years. I like your style and flow. Keep them coming! You had me at the paper towel blending! :)

Loved your video. I've been painting and sketching for many years, the hard way I might add. I tried your method last night and in two hours was amazed how well the piece turned out!!!!