Windmills in the Country

DIRECTIONS

1. Draw diagonal curved lines to create a hilly landscape: the front in thick (1.5) pen, the back with a medium (05) size.
   
   Place the stilts for two windmills. This means drawing four lines that meet in one point and putting a circle on top. Put a dot in the center of the circle and start drawing the tail from that point. The windmill in the foreground is drawn with a medium (05) nib, the one in the back with the thin (01) pen. Note that the front one is taller.
   
   Now, add the windmill blades and draw some diagonal lines across the stilts to complete the windmills.

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2. Add the outlines of the farm buildings. I used my medium (05) pen, but I think it would look better with the thin (01) nib that I used for the windmill next to it. Make the buildings look three-dimensional. The top of the roof is level (parallel with the top and the bottom paper edge).

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3. Draw the curved cloud outlines in the background just above your windmills.

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4. Move on to the smaller details and textures in this piece. The fields in front get thick (1.5) pen strokes that create the furrows.
   
   In the middle ground, add a few grazing cattle. Note that they are just a rough cattle-like shape with lines for the legs and the horns. Around them, draw some wiggly lines that might resemble grass.

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5. The last details to be added are on the farm buildings in the background. The barns appear to be built from wood. Break your lines often. As they are far away from the viewer, they would not be able to be seen clearly and broken linework can create that impression.
   
   Nice rural landscape—way to go!

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