The Bob Ross Guide to Digital Landscape Painting

Summary by Krater

Veteran concept artist Nathan Fowkes demonstrates a fast technique for painting background landscapes in Photoshop, focusing on maintaining value organization while varying color hue and using a hard/soft brush for lighting and atmospheric depth.

From the video

Answers: How do you paint concept art backgrounds quickly using Photoshop?

• digital landscape painting
• value organization
• hue variation in painting
• atmospheric perspective
• hard and soft edge brush technique
• Photoshop digital painting

What it concludes

• Maintaining group values while changing color hues is the trick to achieving an impressionistic feel in digital landscape painting.
• Using a brush with one hard edge and one soft edge allows artists to quickly create interesting shapes and automatic light and shadow effects.
• Adding diagonal lines pointing towards a focal point helps create compositional unity and guides the viewer's eye through the image.