How To Sketch Landscapes: Tutorial
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro & First Sketch
2:27 - Brush Efficiency & Workflow Overview
5:18 - Keyboard Shortcuts
7:57 - Layer Setup
10:22 - Moving Marks
12:43 - Why is this kind of sketching important?
14:43 - Second Sketch
16:33 - Depth & Contrast
18:55 - Building Form
23:51 - Third Sketch
26:11 - Leading the Eye
29:03 - Repeating Shapes and Shape Language
39:29 - Fourth Sketch
54:37 - Outro
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Hi, Jordan. You'll probably not remember me, but you came to Teesside Uni over a year ago to do a presentation as well as some portfolio reviews. I was one of the last people you saw and because you were almost out of time, you had to give me and a few others really quick reviews. I'd just like you to know that I am really grateful that you set aside the time to create this video.
Hey man! I do remember, I've just had a look at your Artstation and it's jogged my memory. Looks like you're definitely improving, sorry I didn't have enough time to properly talk to you. Hope that things are going well!
As a beginner in landscape painting, I truly appreciate the knowledge you've shared with this video. Before watching this, I've felt that I spent too much time sketching outlines of a biome or scene I have in mind. But then I'd start outlining smaller elements, but then I'd start erasing because things would start feeling out of place. This tutorial really explains how to set a landscape and the basic elements in it. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
A few words to add to what is said well in the video:
When approaching an artwork with a back-, mid-, and foreground, it is generally optimal to start out with the midground because this will be the portion of your scene that contains the main highlight and focus of what you want to display. It's what has the largest portion of the scene devoted to it. This means that everything else in some way has to relate to the midground scenery no matter if its a landscape artwork or a character scene or something else.
Basically, what exists in the midground determines the contrast levels of the background and foreground, it determines the general scaling of objects we can relate to (like a person in the foreground overlooking a mountain in the midground, and then having the backdrop to show if the main mountain in focus is a standalone massive peak, or if it's one out of many peaks in a large mountain range -simply acting as a representation of the general scenery itself).
Second part is on efficiency, and why it is important. It isn't really just about rushing your work or thinking you aren't allowed to put time and thought into what you're drawing. The reason efficiency is important, is because it allows you to focus on what is most important in your work, it is what is going to form the "first impression" aspect of your art. Efficiency and focusing on the bigger picture is going to establish a well balanced canvas, upon which you can then feel free to spend as much time as you desire on details, color grading, texturing, etc. But if you dive into these aspects too quickly, you might risk losing the cohesiveness of your work overall, and it might come out as disjointed, or the balance of which areas have more detail than others might be off too.
Most importantly, when working in a creative mindset, having an efficient and broad approach to your scene will help you to develop your idea over time, whereas details will make you focus on purely that element, and your creative decisions will as a result have a much smaller effect. "Think big, change big" is a motto you can use. The broader your initial approach is, the more freedom you give yourself to change and adapt your concept as a whole in that early conceptual stage.
Thanks
i was on TH-cam expecting to hear half the information and the rest behind a paywall but you're including a lot of technical details like what kind of brush you use, how, etc and I'm really grateful
people who provides this kind of content for free has vip card in heaven. Thank you, Jordan!
agree
And best we can do as a pay back is subscribe
god I hope heaven doesn't have vip cards
@@emmettmcclain6257 Are you implying people who do good should not go to heaven? Can you justify your statement?
@@lisandrolisandro8100 I think they mean they hope there isn’t a separate designated area within heaven that is locked off and requires VIP access.
I can’t accurately articulate how much this has helped me. I just doodled something in ten minutes using your tips that looks better than something I tried to work on for hours and hours. I learned more in the first half of your video than I learned in a year of independent study of landscape painting.
Thank you very much for your assistance in my artistic journey
What an amazing thing to read, really glad this could help!
Excellent. This is what kickstarts my 2021. 🎨
This is amazing tutorial. I've watched over hundred hours of digital drawing and as far as I can tell, this encapsulates all the core techniques. Really amazing work.
I downloaded the efficient landscape brush pack and tried scaling up the brush size on PS. I wanted to know what kind of shapes they're made up of and to my surprise, the flat-looking brush is actually made up of flattened shapes of flowers! Pretty neat!
Yup, you're right! Haha. It's from a photo I took of some roses, I made a selection, made a brush and played around with them. Turned into an awesome sketchy brush!
@@JordanGrimmer is the brushs totaly free to use in any of our projects (commercial projects) ?
Your background arts are really amazing and stunning! love the details there.
Awesome! I learned quite a bit, thanks for the helpful advice, can't wait for more
Much appreciated. Learned something new today. The thing with the dark/light contrast (counter change). A thing you are doing quite a lot in your artworks and it works so beautifully. Thank you for sharing your knowledge here for free, you are helping a lot of people getting a little bit better with every video :)
We are literally covering this in class as we speak. So happy You uploaded this now
Yes! Thank you so much, I can see that you put a lot of effort and time into this!
Thank you for this free tutorial. Yours is one of the best out there! You really inspired me.
as someone who wants to be a concept artist, this was so helpful. I used to get overwhelmed by landscapes and backgrounds, but now I feel like they aren't as scary anymore. thank you for your video!!
Really grateful for this video! It's long but well explained. It's clear that you spent a lot of time preparing this as well.
Thank you very much for this!
Thank you so much ! I love your videos and tutos and I just am so glad to see how you work ( as an children illustrator I do not work the same way so that’s dope really !!)and I have to tell you that I’m glad you bought your microphone as you have the most wonderful accent !! Again, thanks a lot xxx
I ended up liking this video before the first minute was over. Such amazing content and absolutely love the advice. THANKS JORDAN!!
Bless you these brushes has forever transformed my workflow
love your videos! it's inspired me to try the black and white technique. I usually jump straight into colour, so it's fun to try something different. I am finding it helpful and less troublesome when something about the composition doesn't look right. It is easier to tweak and play about with it, compared to it being worked on in colour. Multiple times I made something which ended up not quite how I liked it but felt committed to finish.
also love your advice on brushes too! I make my own but your advise has helped me refine them. :D
Thank you so much, I keep repeating this video. The way you articulate your ideas and concepts really teaches me a lot and opens my forgetful mind every time.
Hi Jordan, thanks so much for all these wonderful videos. I feel inspired!
Just saw this in my suggested. Saved for a little later when I can watch. looks awesome!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL, many thing to learn here, thank you so much dor this!
I am trying my best to get better at environment, I am having a lot of difficoulties by starting the sketch without messing perispective or the values. I am really happy to found your videos. Maybe, with some more practise and patience I will get better at it. Thank you so much for you content!!
Hi, love your art, I'm trying some landscape/environment concept art, and your tips are great, I'm using lots of references for now!
I just want to start off by saying thank you so much for inspiring me to practice sketching landscapes!
I've personally always found drawing landscapes/buildings intimidating so I tend to stray away from learning it- But recently, I wanted to pick up these skill sets to broaden my artistic knowledge-
Just by watching a few minutes of your video, I can't express how invaluable the techniques/advices you've given in this vid- Especially for free for beginner artists like me!
So truly, thank you for being such an amazing and exceptional teacher to everybody!
Man, your art inspire me to be better. I learned so much from you!
As a traditional artist moving to digital for the last few years, the ideas of having a strong composition is the same. I am still struggling with not putting details in my sketches and using the broad stroke/value technique. I've seen many great videos on sketching and doing thumbnails quickly and efficiently, but this is one of the best I've seen! Thank you for taking the time and breaking it down for us. When I was in Community college (in the U.S.) I had teachers tell me, no matter how well you can paint and draw, if the composition is weak, your final piece will not be as good as it could be. So, honestly, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Invaluable!
Wow, I love that style!
so simple, yet so perfect.. amazing. i am a black and gray artist, and your take on it is wonderful !! what a master !! aven after allll my life of mastering black and gray art, i still manage to learn alot today ! thank you sir !
Thank You so much you don't understand how much these videos mean to me!!
thank you for your sharing, love your style
Man your brush is amazing !!!! My art really flew up !
Underrated, thank you for this video.
Thanks for the helpfull video!
I always truggle with creating interesting looking landscapes, this really shows me I need to pay more attention to the early stages of my creation.
Fantastic! I work kinda like this and I like how you clearly expressed the reasons why you used large brushes, the layering etc
thank you so much. i really love these basics tutorial. so helpful for us beginner
I really want to get into landscape painting. Thanks for the great video!
Awesome! Im gonna do a bunch of these and see if I get better over time
Thank you Jordan
For someone who mostly draws portraits and lines for the shapes, this was actually helpful and easy to understand.
Hope to try this tips out soon to get into sketching and landscape concepts! Thank you so much for helping us small art beans!😁👍
Really glad you find it useful!
Watching that for the second time...this is an amazing tutorial. For me, it`s like the fundamentals of landscape creation.
Glad you like it!
thank you the brushes work really nice :) I love your work
Thank you for your efforts
Thanks for aploding this type tutorials
Thank you so much....this is so very helpful... I'm enjoying the process ..aahh ah looks like painting background can be fun too..... you make the whole thing enjoyable
Thanks for doing this for free man, happy 2021
Very efficient landscapes you got there
This channel is one of my favorite now. Thank you for the helpful content!
Glad you enjoy it!
thanks for the tutorial ! really useful
Been waiting for this one! Great way to start the year
Easy digital Painting
The first art channel that I actually comment to. I was searching for a similar landscape/environment-focused type of channel for weeks. Amazing content man, truly!
Glad you like my content :)
Your tutorials are so informative Jordan!
Glad you like them!
Love the video as always Jordan, thanks for the amazing video
Glad you enjoyed!
As a 3d artist, this is actually immensely helpful
Genius concept.
Thank you so much, as a beginner I was getting caught up in the details, while my goal was to get a general feel of the scene I had in mind, your approach is great for that! Great content!
Glad it helped!
God I love listening to professionals communicate their knowledge of their craft. Thank you for this
Thanks for your work
Such a conscientious tutorial
So, essentially! This really helped me a lot. Subscribed!
Amazing as always!
Love ur vids, learned a lot, keep it up!
Been wanting to start environment designs for a while now, your videos are brilliant. Cheers.
Glad you like them!
i cannot thank you enough, all of these little tips and your workflow helped me understand concept art and landscape painting so much more than any art school ever could
people really struggle with where to start or how to even do things when they are new to expansive skills like art and especially landscapes and backgrounds, This video wonderfully explains how you need to start and how to build your workflow instead of putting every shadow and shape with a brushstroke, and instead utilizing the power of digital art saving hours and hours of time
Thanks so much for the kind words, really glad this could help in any way!
You’re amazing for this
Would just like to say a big thank you Jordan for making these videos, for someone like myself they are extremely helpful. I'm trying to give digital art a shot, but starting to feel like an old man already with all these modern programs and drawing tablets! So any help like this which I can get is invaluable. I'm wondering.. would you consider doing a video on how you use layers? After watching you work, it baffles me how you keep track of what's what. It would be interesting to see how often you use them and how to organise them. Thanks again.
wow this is super cool i will definitly use this! people like you with this skill inspired me to start youtube recently
Happy to hear that!
Jam packed with great advice! Cheers Jordan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
omg you opened my head. my world's gonna change
Fantastic video; you're very generous with your time and experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very helpful, thank you!
my new year's resolution for 2023 was to get better at drawing environments, really lucky that this video got recommended to me!
Appreciate your videos. Helped me a lot. Well explained . Nr 1, have brushes sorted , quick accsess get good workflow. Thanx alot Jordan.
I am so happy that I found your channel
this is an awesome tutorial. So much out there is based on portraits or characters. Wow. Awesome job, Jordan. I know its old at this point, but still.
Thanks so much!
I loved the tutorial, thank you. Can you either do a quick video on how to setup your starting 4 panel template, or make it available for download?
Thanks for your amazing content! Hope to see more of you and that everything's going alright seeing you haven't uploaded in half a year.
Maybe an interesting phenomenon here. When I first saw the finished sketches in the intro, I was like holy cow genius. But each time you finished and moved on, I was sure you would come back and do more because it didn't feel the same as when I first saw it. Very interesting how powerful these sketches can be compared to the effort. But I think that's why focusing on readability first is so important. So much of the impact is in lighting and composition. You are very skilled at reading your own readability on the fly.
Thanks alot! Appreciate it :)
this is gold
I love this, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you!!
Really awesome 👌 👏
It was helpful, thank you
thank you man, thank you 1000x for this. I seriously don't know what else to say other than thank you!!!!!!!!
So refreshing to see a tutorial on sketching concept scenes manually again! My entire feed is filled with AI art now and even though I have nothing against that I'd like to be taught the old art of a tablet and holding a pen again!
your comment just made me feel so old. rip art
Thank you thank you thanj you i learned so much this is beautiful i love it
Watching a lot of landscape time lapse videos, it always seems they have a brush that just blots details onto background rocks very quickly. It seems very effective.
Lovely
Amazing Video man!
Really encouraging me to call those finished pieces sketches : ^ )
I din a good one by follow this video. I'm very happy about the result and I thank you so much for the content.
This Very Cool. Thanks Thanks
looking forward to it
I can't wait to to to art school! This is amazing but without a good foundation and experience for me I really don't understand 😕. Hopefully one day I will and get the out things are in my head
Thanks king
wow, thank you so much!
Quick addition to the shortcuts segment; 1, v is the transform tool, and 2, if you hold any of the tool buttons while on another tool, you can use that tool without changing tools for as long as the button is pressed. So if I'm using the brush, I can hold v to move or transform my layer, and then release it to immediately continue painting.