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!
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!
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.
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
i was on UA-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
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.
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!😁👍
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!
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
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!
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.
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!
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 :)
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!!
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!!
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 !
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.
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!
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
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
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
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.
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
One thing I've noticed right away that I don't do enough of is toning down the opacity of a newly added detail to make it more subtle. I always overshoot, decide that it doesn't work and Ctrl+Z it away.
Love the video, congratulations on the content. Do you have any video about the next step, taking one of the black and white sketches and adding color and finalizing it?
Hi! I want to start drawing and this is super helpful to understand the mindset and thinking of drawing landscapes. I'm just starting and I can't make that beautiful art yet. What should I do to improve the quickest? Should I just do sketches (to improve overall shaping), or should I also do shading and colouring and almost finish my pieces (to practice that, although it wouldn't look that good...)? Also how much time should I spend per artwork now when I'm just beginning to learn? I want to improve on getting the right shapes as well as shading and colouring. Thanks! Editing just to explain why I'm asking this: I've read on the internet that you shouldn't spend much time at all on your artwork to improve quickly, but how will I then be able to learn colouring and shading if I'm just gonna focus on creating the general shapes of things? Is there a way to practice colouring and shading without having to draw your own bases/sketches first? I just don't know how to practice. It doesn't make sence to spend days on a piece that will end up looking like sh*t (lol), but how will I otherwise learn everything I need to learn? How did you learn drawing?
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.
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.
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
@@Meameameameameamea 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.
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!
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!
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 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!
i was on UA-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
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.
We are literally covering this in class as we speak. So happy You uploaded this now
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!
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) ?
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!
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!
Bless you these brushes has forever transformed my workflow
Yes! Thank you so much, I can see that you put a lot of effort and time into this!
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!
Thanks for doing this for free man, happy 2021
As a 3d artist, this is actually immensely helpful
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 :)
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 :)
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 :)
omg you opened my head. my world's gonna change
Awesome! I learned quite a bit, thanks for the helpful advice, can't wait for more
Underrated, thank you for this video.
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
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!
Thank You so much you don't understand how much these videos mean to me!!
Thank you for this free tutorial. Yours is one of the best out there! You really inspired me.
Been wanting to start environment designs for a while now, your videos are brilliant. Cheers.
Glad you like them!
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.
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!
This channel is one of my favorite now. Thank you for the helpful content!
Glad you enjoy it!
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!!
Man your brush is amazing !!!! My art really flew up !
Just saw this in my suggested. Saved for a little later when I can watch. looks awesome!
Your background arts are really amazing and stunning! love the details there.
God I love listening to professionals communicate their knowledge of their craft. Thank you for this
my new year's resolution for 2023 was to get better at drawing environments, really lucky that this video got recommended to me!
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!!
Been waiting for this one! Great way to start the year
Easy digital Painting
So, essentially! This really helped me a lot. Subscribed!
Fantastic video; you're very generous with your time and experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great video! Who the hell dislikes this? Just can’t please some people ...keep the great content coming : )
UA-cam bots
Don't worry about it
Likes or dislikes don't justify how great a video is
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 !
Amazing Video man!
thank you for your sharing, love your style
Jam packed with great advice! Cheers Jordan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really want to get into landscape painting. Thanks for the great video!
Fantastic! I work kinda like this and I like how you clearly expressed the reasons why you used large brushes, the layering etc
Your tutorials are so informative Jordan!
Glad you like them!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL, many thing to learn here, thank you so much dor this!
Thank you Jordan
Really encouraging me to call those finished pieces sketches : ^ )
This is so inspiring, can you also explain how you add colour over these value sketches.Thats one thing i find most difficult.
The next video will be exactly that :)
Yes plz
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.
Man, your art inspire me to be better. I learned so much from you!
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!
I am so happy that I found your channel
Love ur vids, learned a lot, keep it up!
Very efficient landscapes you got there
I ended up liking this video before the first minute was over. Such amazing content and absolutely love the advice. THANKS JORDAN!!
Such a conscientious tutorial
Thank you for your efforts
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!
Awesome! Im gonna do a bunch of these and see if I get better over time
Wow, I love that style!
thank you so much. i really love these basics tutorial. so helpful for us beginner
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
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!
Hi Jordan, thanks so much for all these wonderful videos. I feel inspired!
thanks for the tutorial ! really useful
Love the video as always Jordan, thanks for the amazing video
Glad you enjoyed!
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
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 man, thank you 1000x for this. I seriously don't know what else to say other than thank you!!!!!!!!
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.
thank you the brushes work really nice :) I love your work
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 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
You’re amazing for this
im looking forward to this
all of this for free O_O THANK YOU SO MUCH
One thing I've noticed right away that I don't do enough of is toning down the opacity of a newly added detail to make it more subtle. I always overshoot, decide that it doesn't work and Ctrl+Z it away.
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.
Amazing as always!
Love the video, congratulations on the content. Do you have any video about the next step, taking one of the black and white sketches and adding color and finalizing it?
Thank you! And yup, the one following this here: ua-cam.com/video/di4yZj3d_Co/v-deo.html
I love this, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
looking forward to it
Hi! I want to start drawing and this is super helpful to understand the mindset and thinking of drawing landscapes. I'm just starting and I can't make that beautiful art yet. What should I do to improve the quickest? Should I just do sketches (to improve overall shaping), or should I also do shading and colouring and almost finish my pieces (to practice that, although it wouldn't look that good...)? Also how much time should I spend per artwork now when I'm just beginning to learn? I want to improve on getting the right shapes as well as shading and colouring. Thanks!
Editing just to explain why I'm asking this: I've read on the internet that you shouldn't spend much time at all on your artwork to improve quickly, but how will I then be able to learn colouring and shading if I'm just gonna focus on creating the general shapes of things? Is there a way to practice colouring and shading without having to draw your own bases/sketches first? I just don't know how to practice. It doesn't make sence to spend days on a piece that will end up looking like sh*t (lol), but how will I otherwise learn everything I need to learn? How did you learn drawing?
Thanks for aploding this type tutorials
It’s very interesting! Thank you!😄😋😉
Glad you liked it!
Mmmm, this audio is crisp, very nice
Thank you thank you thanj you i learned so much this is beautiful i love it
this is gold
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?
Appreciate your videos. Helped me a lot. Well explained . Nr 1, have brushes sorted , quick accsess get good workflow. Thanx alot Jordan.
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.
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.
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.
Very helpful, thank you!