Depth has been achieved mainly by changing the intensity of the trees which are darker in the forefront and become lighter and less defined in the distance.
Texture has been attempted with the side of the charcoal in the forefront to try reflect the muddy, slightly grassy textures in real life however more of this could have been added in order to really see the effect of this technique.
By drawing the trees vertically instead adding foliage with horizontal movements, it allows the trees to look grounded and really combine with the landscape. They also break up the image from the sweeping horizontal lines the hill and the river create across the whole of the image.
The sky has also been included in the image which attempts to reflect the mood and weather of the day though to improve the image to shade the whole sky, not just the clouds which would reflect more of the bright yet winter day. The image could have been further improved by adding more sky as this would not only have added a sense of scale and grandure but it would have changed where the intersections of the rule of thirds of the image lie as at the moment they are not focused on any areas of interest. If there was more sky they could have been raised to the lower cloud and top of the right hill with faint trees (more along the horizon line) and along the river.
Impressionistic techniques have been used a lot on the trees because of the sheer quantity of them and the inability to record every detail on them therefore a lot of it has been suggested through the loose medium of charcoal and by smuding and mark making with the use of it.
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