Jason Nicholas shows how to sketch with loose, wandering lines that build depth through repetition and perspective. He uses steel conduits receding into the frame and layers of darkening to create intentional movement, then frames the composition with existing scene elements like buildings and trees.
You might notice my pen is kind of jumping all over the place. I'm not focusing on one area. I'm just kind of going with, kind of going with the flow. And then I just wanna capture the bottom of the frame, which I see are these steel conduits or pipes that are kind of running back in perspective. And that'll form the bottom. And this is the framed area. When we add color, this will really pop out. You'll also notice I do go back over lines a lot and I'm not tracing them exactly, which is fine. I want it to be loose looking, but I'm gonna darken this because I want you to get a sense of that framing I'm talking about and how when we're looking around, we can use elements in our scene, whether they're buildings or trees or even people, we can use them to kind of frame the view. It's sort of like a view within a view.
