An Overview of How to Paint Digital Landscapes!
The methods to paint digital landscapes are infinite. Not only are there numerous techniques involved, but you need to develop a good sense of space, textures, and color variations. While it may not be easy at first, we can break down how each element in landscapes can be done. Your primary goal is to recreate natural landscape textures. Of course, I should expect you to already have the basics down like perspective and being familiar with your digital art tools. As you work on the textures from learning how to paint digital landscapes, you will actually begin to develop your own techniques outside of just painting it in. For example, you can begin to clone textures from pre-existing pictures as a means to get that texture as a shortcut to fill out a large section of landscape. But first, you should start with the basics. With the articles provided, here’s how to paint digital landscapes on this site: 
Painting Landscape Elements
This will be the primer for how landscape are handled on this site. We will discuss painting landscape elements of rocks, forests, snow, and sand as the key components of painting landscape.Drawing Rocks
Learning how to draw rocks 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. Painting Rock Textures
Learn to paint rock textures with these four different types of arrangements: hard edge, soft edge, spotted, and striped variations. Painting Rock Variations
Just as there are different types of rock textures, there are different configurations when you paint rock variations: vertical, horizontal, 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. Painting Cave Exteriors
Painting cave exteriors is a lesson in manipulating rock variations and shading. You don’t want to simply paint the cave opening pure black. Instead, sample from the colors around it. Painting Cave Interiors
What will help you the most in painting cave interiors 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. Drawing Tree Trunks
With a little bit of control and creativity, drawing tree trunks gets you to look at space within a confined area. This is due to all the different ways branches can grow from the main trunk. Painting Digital Trees
Now that you have your tree trunk, build upon it by painting digital trees and adding the much needed foliage. It is a test to see how well you can see mass in space. Painting Forest Exteriors
Take what you know about painting digital trees and expand on it...literally! In this lesson and using the same premise, we are painting forest exteriors. Painting Forest Interiors
Painting forests exteriors and digital trees will help you develope the ability for painting forest interiors because it utilizes your ability to see color, perspective, and creating mass with light. Painting Rocky Deserts
Tie in what you learned about painting mountains, the techniques from painting trees, the basic fundamental color principles, and apply it towards painting rocky deserts. Painting Sand Dunes
Deserts can be beautiful as well as desolate. Here is where painting sand dunes can show the other side of this environment. Be creative with the patterns found on the sandy floor. Painting Snow
Painting snow 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.
Have A Great Method For Painting Landscapes?
Do you have a unique method or tip to painting digital landscapes? Share it with those that want to know how to improve on their own landscape paintings!
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