Learn to Create Your Own Landscape Drawings!

How to Draw Landscapes
This will be the primer for how to draw landscapes on this site. We will discuss the landscape elements of rocks, forests, snow, sand, and water as the key components of painting landscape.

Rock Textures
Learn to paint rock textures with these four different types of arrangements: hard edge, soft edge, spotted, and striped rock pattern variations.

Rocky Texture Drawing
Learning how to create a rocky texture background can be hard because of the random variations that can occur. This is where learning the basics of contour and gesture drawings can help a great deal.

How to Draw Mountains
There are different types of mountains. Hence, in this lesson, learn how to draw mountains that have vertical, horizontal, stressed cracks, and angular configurations.

Painting Mountains
Painting mountains can be one of the most fun elements to paint. That's because there is a lot of things going on like tree lines and various rock structures. Use the power of suggestion to help you.

Scary Cave
Painting a scary cave is a lesson in manipulating rock variations and shading. You don't want to simply paint the scary cave pure black. Instead, sample from the colors around it.

Ice Background
What will help you the most in painting an ice background is your knowledge of color. Since we are only dealing with a limited amount of hues, start to use your dodge and burn options to get more color.

Draw Tree Trunks
This lesson on earning how to draw tree trunks gets you to look at organizing space within a confined area. This is due to all the different ways branches can grow from the main trunk.

How to Draw a Tree
This lesson on how to draw a tree will teach you some basic digital brush settings needed to create foliage. It is also a test to see how well you can see mass.

How to Draw Trees
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to draw trees using color as a means to suggest and stack foliage on top of one another to create a forest drawing.

Forest Backgrounds
In this lesson, we are going to paint forest backgrounds. The tutorial will utilize your ability to see color, perspective, and the formation of mass with light.

Desert Background
This tutorial will cover the tools and techniques used for creating a desert background. The key here is to look for the digital brushes that will give you the right textures.

Sand Textures
Deserts can be beautiful as well as desolate. Here is where painting sand textures properly can show this type of emotion. Be creative with the patterns found on the sandy floor.

Winter Background
Painting a winter background is not as hard as it first seems. Aside from the shades of white, the only think you need to worry about is how the snow covers an element and the type of textures it can result from it.

How to Paint Water
Using some of the most basic digital art tools, this digital painting lesson will take you through the process of learning how to paint water realistically.