Context & Space Drawing - Big vs. Small - Ran Art Blog

Besides the sense of depth, you can add a sense of space, and give it context.

Hereby, some tips:

By adding a big object (a character in this case), in a certain place (cave in this example), you can make the space look small.

When adding a small object (boat) to the same space (cave), it appears to be big.

So, an object can define space.

And vice versa, a space can define an object.

Sometimes, when drawing a tree in a pot, the pot makes it look small, like this bonsai tree:

When giving context, meaning when drawing the bonsai tree in a room, which we roughly know the size of a room, it makes the bonsai look smaller, like it suppose to:

On the other hand, a worm is usually small.
Yet, when drawing familiar objects around it, like trees, it looks like a huge, monstrous worm:

For more tips on drawing depth, feel free to visit my depth drawing guide.

If you like my tree drawings, you are welcome to visit my tree drawing guide.

Ran

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