[Speed painting] How to draw a landscape

◆ How to draw a landscape

 

[Introduction]

This time, I will introduce how to draw such a science fiction landscape with speed painting.

 

[Preparation]

There are two things to do in preparation.

Creating a composition guide and creating the outside of the canvas.

 

First, load the template created by vector software.

This is a template with guide lines at the positions of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and golden ratio division.

If you place the motif in consideration of this intersection, you will get a nice picture.

 

Next, make the outside of the canvas.

First, fill the layer in its current state.

Then press Edit → Resize Canvas.

Make an outer margin.

In addition, create a new layer → fill only the outer margin.

Then hide the first canvas image you created.

This will select the range of this image with the selection tool when it is finished,

Use Edit → Fit Canvas Size to Selection to crop the finished picture.

 

[Create a rough terrain with the selection tool + fill]

Separate layers for each depth

Use the Selection tool to draw silhouettes of terrain such as mountains and rocks.

I painted it so that the back is white and the front is black.

 

[Make a rough with a square stretch brush]

This brush goes well with science fiction illustrations and speed painting.

Even if you move the brush without thinking about anything in particular, you can create a shape that looks like it by accidental power.

Since it is distributed here, Clip Studio users should download it and use it.

 

[Synthesis of materials to make details]

Make details using materials such as photos and brushes.

How to collect materials and → How to process materials,

By memorizing these two, you will be able to synthesize materials and make details.

Let's take a closer look at these two.

 

[How to collect materials]

There are three main useful materials

The first is photo material.

The second is the brush material.

The third is the overlay material.

Let's take a closer look at these three.

 

・ About photo materials

This is a method of pasting the material you shot yourself or the material downloaded from material sites such as Pakutaso, PIXTA, texture.com, 3dtotal, and BEIZ images into the picture.

It can be used when you want to draw details quickly.

 

・ About brush material

DL the brush material from CLIP STUDIO ASSETS etc.

Use it to draw a deal.

Unlike photographic materials, the arrangement can be adjusted freely, so it is especially effective for random shapes and natural objects.

 

・ About overlay material

A collection of materials with light drawn on it. It costs money to look up overlays in DesignCuts, but you can get good quality materials. Also, Design Cuts regularly sells a large number of products, so if you are interested, please visit and buy.

 

[How to process the material]

・ Choose a material

・ Cut out the material

・ Place the material

・ Match the color of the material

・ Familiarize the cuts in the material

Just repeat these four.

 

Use the selection tool to cut the material.

Free transformation is used for material placement.

Use the hue / lightness / saturation or gradation map to adjust the color of the material.

The way to blend the cuts in the material is to make an airbrush type eraser and erase the part you want to blend in.

 

[Tips for material synthesis]

Here are two tips for synthesizing materials.

・ Creation of SF-like light

・ Reuse of materials that are difficult to break

I think that you can finish the picture more quickly by using this.

 

[Creation of SF-like light]

I will introduce how to draw light, which is common in such concept art.

Search for Night City on texture.com.

Then, read the material of the night view that came out and make an S shape with the tone curve to raise the contrast.

It is completed by converting the layer effect of the photo into addition (emission) or dodging (emission).

Erase the photo with a mask if necessary.

 

[Coloring monochrome pictures]

There are two ways to add color to monochrome: gradient maps and overlays.

It's difficult to use for character illustrations of people, but these two are very compatible with this concept art background.

 

There are two ways to use the gradation map.

The first is to use a gradient map for only one layer, Edit → Tonal Correction → Gradient Map

The second is to create a layer of the gradient map and apply the gradient map to everything below that layer.

There are two types: layer → color correction → gradation map.

 

By adjusting the parameters of the gradation map, you can add any color from monochrome.

This is suitable for making the influence of ambient light and the overall impression by using one sheet as it is.

It's nice to reduce the transparency or use overlays.

 

The usage of overlay is simple, create one layer on top and make the layer effect an overlay.

The method is to put a color on that layer.

This is suitable for the work of painting the part you intended, such as a unique color.

 

If you use these two well, you can add color to a monochrome picture like this.

 

[Additional addition of motifs]

Here we will make a spaceship. Make a shape with a square stretch brush in the same procedure as the landscape,

Add detail by photo composition. Color with gradient maps and overlays to blend in with your surroundings.

 

[Insert post-processing]

Add light on the screen or add (emission) to create an impressive picture.

Draw a radial white line and blur it with a blur (Gauss).

All you have to do is draw dusty light and smoke.

 

【Complete】

A picture like this is completed.