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Digital Landscape Painting

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Overview

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Have you ever wanted to express a vivid and lush landscape or environment?

Landscape painting is one of the oldest and most cherished forms of art, and the world is always in need of a good environment artist. 

You have characters and worlds within you, figures and backgrounds. We're here today to cover the background part of it.

In this class, you'll be walked through the process of sketching, coloring, rendering, and lighting a digital landscape painting. 

Taught by professional artist Taylor Payton, the piece you'll see unfold was originally meant as a commission.

In this class, we cover:

  1. Speedpaint sketching
  2. Line drawing
  3. Color and light
  4. Shadows
  5. Simple drawing
  6. Composition techniques
  7. Materials and textures
  8. Brushwork and economy
  9. Shape language and design
  10. Mistake correction
  11. Simplification methods
  12. And more!

Not only will you learn the techniques and methods used to craft the  sketchy landscapes below, you'll even learn what it takes to finalize one.

The brush set for this project can be downloaded here:

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax3x18nqsou7dwn/LANDSCAPE_PACK.abr?dl=0

Syllabus

  • 01 Intro
  • 02 Your first sketch
  • 03 Laying In Color
  • 04 Painting begins
  • 05 Painting with light
  • 06 Finished Sketch
  • 07 Second Sketch Timelapse
  • 08 Third Sketch Timelapse
  • 09 Fourth Sketch Timelapse
  • 10 Beginning The Final
  • 11 From Left to Right
  • 12 Opposites Reconciled
  • 13 Balancing Elements
  • 14 Creative Destruction
  • 15 Detailing And Sharpening
  • 16 Economozing Brushstrokes
  • 17 Checking progress iteratively
  • 18 SIMPLICITY VS COMPLEXITY
  • 19 Thoughts on Water
  • 20 Laying In More Elements
  • 21 Flipping The Canvas
  • 22 Zooming in again
  • 23 Adding some Architecture
  • 24 Architecture Pt 2
  • 25 Inspired by Life
  • 26 Refine Refine Refine
  • 27 Listen To The Light
  • 28 Details again
  • 29 Warming Things Up
  • 30 Transposing Details
  • 31 Subtle textures
  • 32 Finishing And Recapitulation
  • 33 Last Look and Review

Taught by

Taylor Payton

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