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How to Draw a futuristic landscape: Block Buildings and Elevated Lines
Explore futuristic landscape through four selected drawing stages. Focus on block buildings and elevated lines and a textured crayon finish.
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These 4 pictures show selected moments from the drawing. For every step in between and a guide on your canvas, get the full lesson in LittlePaper.
What you will learn
Practice futuristic landscape with attention to block buildings and elevated lines.
Shapes and proportions
Stack simple building rectangles behind a long elevated structure and repeat smaller window shapes.
A common mistake
Window lines crossing building edges flatten the separate towers.
How to fix it
Finish the large building outlines before subdividing their faces.
This futuristic landscape study focuses on block buildings and elevated lines. Stack simple building rectangles behind a long elevated structure and repeat smaller window shapes. The exercise is about keeping these visible shapes readable before adding small marks or color.
These are four selected stages, not a complete stroke-by-stroke sequence. Blue guide lines mark additions in the source images. Compare the pictures for the overall shape changes; use the complete LittlePaper lesson for the smaller steps between them.
A few things to start with
Paper, a pencil and crayons matching the example. Leave room around the drawing for proportion checks before making the outlines darker.
A little peek at the drawing
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Selected stages · The complete drawing sequence is in the app.
Shapes, character & color
A look at the drawing stages.
Try the shape tips below on paper. When you’re ready to draw along with each small step, continue in LittlePaper.
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Selected stage 2: early shapes
This picture shows source stage 2 of 8 for futuristic landscape, not the next single stroke. Stack simple building rectangles behind a long elevated structure and repeat smaller window shapes. Compare its unfinished edges with the complete outline shown later.
Selected stage 2: early shapes · Preview image 1 of 4 - 02Selected stage
Selected stage 5: building the outline
This picture shows source stage 5 of 8 for futuristic landscape, not the next single stroke. Finish the large building outlines before subdividing their faces. Compare its unfinished edges with the complete outline shown later.
Selected stage 5: building the outline · Preview image 2 of 4 - 03Selected stage
Complete outline: block buildings and elevated lines
Compare the finished futuristic landscape outline with the earlier selected stages. Window lines crossing building edges flatten the separate towers. Finish the large building outlines before subdividing their faces.
Complete outline: block buildings and elevated lines · Preview image 3 of 4 - 04Selected stage
Crayon color: soft gray, blue-gray, lavender, cream white
Use the colored futuristic landscape example to compare the palette after checking the outline. The visible palette includes soft gray, blue-gray, lavender, cream white. Keep repeated parts consistent and let small light flecks preserve the crayon texture.
Crayon color: soft gray, blue-gray, lavender, cream white · Preview image 4 of 4
A little practice goes a long way
Make room for your own ideas.
The example uses soft gray, blue-gray, lavender, cream white. Keep matching limbs and repeated parts in a consistent palette. Use light overlapping crayon strokes so the inner outlines stay visible. Finish the large building outlines before subdividing their faces.
The next little step is yours
Like the idea?
Let’s make it together.
Open the “Futuristic Landscape Drawing” drawing idea in LittlePaper for the complete sequence. Follow a guide, pause when you need, and add your own colors.
Download LittlePaper from the App Store, then open the drawing idea inside the app.
Every step, at your pace.
See the full drawing sequence. Pause, replay, and take another look whenever a shape needs practice.
A guide where you draw.
Trace on the canvas, then try your own lines with a finger or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad.
Make it yours. Keep the making.
Add crayon color, replay your creation, and give your picture a home in a digital 3D book.
