Landscape Tutorials? Forests, water, mountains.

[Hilbruks]

Would you be so kind as to point me in the direction of the best landscape tutorials you know? I could really need some help on those skills.
Thanks :)

[Farvus]

Personally I would go out to the forest and do bunch of sketches. Nature is the best tutorial.
But if you live on a desert then try looking at some photos.

[Saturns Gate]

You shouldent really need tutorials to draw anything. If youve been persistent with your art you should be able to draw just about anything eventually. Just keep practicing.

Everything is made up of shapes, values and color. Master them at the base level and go on from there.

[Hilbruks]

You purists :)

I very much agree with you on that, and when it comes to drawing all the different things in nature, I agree, only drawing and studying them will make you better at understanding them. But what I'm thinking of here is more of a speedpainting aproach, not the pure study of the object, but how to use brushes and how to be able to make a digital painting.

[Juhani Jokinen]

If my memory doesn't fail me there should be some speedpaint videos from Mathias Verhasselt in Youtube- check those out since they probably could give you some pointers.

OR..just throw some paint on a canvas and try things out yourself?

-Juhani

[Justin.]

Great speedpainters learned to do it from life too. Emulation without foundation will always leave alot to be desired.

[Farvus]

But what I'm thinking of here is more of a speedpainting aproach, not the pure study of the object, but how to use brushes and how to be able to make a digital painting.

It's all foundations.
If you go to nature and experiment a bit, you will notice that it's possible to indicate any possible texture with single pencil. You can softly sketch with side of graphite to get different type of clouds, use negative shapes to achieve ralistic looking grass, you can play with tiny organic blobs to get nice looking bark texture and so on. Once you expand your arsenal of rendering techniques, it's not so hard to translate them into Photoshop brushes.

[ArtZealot]

I think maybe drawing from life as people said, or from photos on a reference site like www.corbis.com would help. Also, i'm of the opinion that when you have enough practice drawing from life and photos, that a lot of practice from the imagination is also really important.

[Hilbruks]

Ok. Good answers peeps :)
No shortcuts, I get it.
Thanks :)

By the way, you are very welcome to visit my sketchbook if you like. I could use some constructive critisism over there :)

[Snookums]

Bob ross comes to mind...