Chapter 5 | VAGUE!

A vague background (atmospheric perspective) is often used in paintings and drawings with a distant view.  In my example, the mountains far away are drawn increasingly lighter and vaguer. In the example, also  the zigzag overlaps provide depth. This way you connect foreground and background. .

In the painting ‘Wanderer above the Mists’ from 1817 by Caspar David Friedrich, a hiker gazes at the awe-inspiring surroundings from a mountaintop. In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1817 painting “Wanderer Above the Mists,” a hiker gazes from a mountaintop at an awe-inspiring view. Somewhere in the distance, beyond the mist-shrouded mountains, lies the horizon, at eye level for both the hiker and us as viewers. These kinds of spectacular perspectives are also used in games. Watch how the blue grayish colors in the distance enhance the effect of a ‘sublime nature’.

EXTRA: Make a variation on this subject. Perhaps in your drawing we will see a heroic or dangerous warrior on a tower or the roof of a skyscraper.