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Landscape

“Landscape” by Dan LuVisi
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to paint a landscape, mostly a cloud-scape, but put into a grassy field. I’ll teach you a quick and easy way to lay out your clouds, a new way of blending, and getting your light beams in them. Then I will teach you how to paint some quick mountains, lighting and so forth. So let’s begin!

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Step 1:

In our first image, we want to first start off the landscape with our basic color palette. Ideally, I like to start off with my background layer first which would be in our case, the clouds. So here I’m going to pick think about what I want in the image, something cold, warm, hot, or dark. For this particular image I wanted more of a warm feeling, something that you’d find in Arizona or Texas, on an early morning. So first I’ll lay down a solid blue, just to use it as my starting point. After that I’m going to drop some browns, a focal point which would be the white, and some hard browns to remind me where my darks will go. What we do here is just brief strokes, nothing too defined or that even gives a clear sense of what the image is going to be. Just hints will do.

Step 2:

Here we’re going to do a new technique of smudging. It’s more of a finger painting technique, used to just merge the colors together but with rough-yet smooth edges.

To achieve this technique, you’ll have to configure your brush settings, which I’ll show below:

after you have messed with your settings and chosen what you feel comfortable with, then we can move on. Now as you can see with this blending technique, the brush can be a little wild-especially when set on Pen Pressure. The harder you press on the brush, the more it will scatter the colors and push them aside. Think of a Windshield Wiper effect, kind of. I first started with the left side of the image, blending those colors first. What you do not want to do, is going insanely quick and just smudge everything at once, take your time and be precise with it.

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