Illustrated Environments: Draw a Stylised Landscape Scene in Procreate
In this class you'll learn how to design and illustrate stylised landscape environments to create compelling scenery and backgrounds.
I’ll be using my iPad Pro with Procreate in my demonstrations but feel free to use your preferred drawing tools.
Illustrating environments can provide quite a technical challenge as there are a lot of aspects we have to consider at once, such as composition, perspective, colour, and lighting, not to mention coming up with creative ideas and conveying mood and story. But don’t worry, because in this class I break all these aspects down into easy-to-follow lessons and exercises so that when it comes to drawing our scenes, you can spend less time worrying about these challenges and more time conveying atmosphere and imagination.
Throughout the class we'll cover:
- Achieving a sense of depth and perspective in your scenes
- Accentuating a focal point within your composition
- Stylising your elements using shape language
- Bringing your scene to life with lighting and atmospheric effects
- Illustrating a landscape scene from start to finish
I'll be guiding you step-by-step through these techniques for creating immersive compositions so that by the end of this class you'll be fully equipped to create your own striking landscape.
Whether you're a beginner who enjoys drawing individual objects or characters but have never composed a scene before, or you're an experienced illustrator just looking to improve your skills in this area, this class is packed full of tips and tricks that will be useful to all levels.
And while I’ll be showing you some handy tips for stylising your individual elements, we won’t be going into too much detail on how to draw these from scratch, so some basic drawing skills will be helpful in following along.
So if you’re ready to make some gorgeous scenes, I’ll see you in the class!
Lessons
- Introduction
- Class Overview
- Depth and Perspective
- Focal Point and Composition
- Shape Language
- Lighting and Atmospheric Effects
- Finding Inspiration
- Drawing Individual Elements
- Composition Thumbnails
- Refining the Layout
- Colour Rough
- Colour Blocking
- Details, Lighting and Atmosphere
- Thank You
Meet Your Teacher
I'm Sarah, a freelance illustrator based in Scotland. I create playful, narrative based artwork celebrating nature, imagination, and emotion. I graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with a BDes (honours) in Animation in 2016, and have been freelancing since 2019.
Empowering other creatives to develop their illustration skills is a big part of my work. As a Top Teacher on Skillshare, I’ve helped over 35,000 students level up their practice by sharing my own techniques and processes.
What Students Are Saying
"Going into this class, landscapes were an intimidating concept for me. Sarah's process helped break all the components of landscape illustration into digestible pieces with clear, easy-to-understand principles and calming teaching style." - Chad B
"What a fantastic class! Sarah is a really clear and knowledgeable teacher and she has a real knack for making things that can be complicated very easy to understand. I highly recommend this class." - Shelley S
"This class is beyond amazing! Sarah is a super talented artist, and her lessons are incredibly easy to follow. The clarity of her examples, alongside the practicality of the knowledge she provides, make this class absolutely gold!" - Patrick F
"I always leave Sarah's classes with a strong set of transferable skills that immediately improve anything I work on afterward. I'm able to create pieces that I can be really proud of with the logical and encouraging organization of the lessons." - K R
"This class is again fully packed with knowledge and important tips and tricks, it is amazing and takes my landscape planning at least three steps further. Sarah is incredibly sympathic as a teacher, her encouraging and motivating way of teaching makes me want to watch more new classes from her right away. And besides that her artistic skill are equally amazing which makes it easy to believe everything she teaches us about theory. Thanks for this great content!" - Jutta S
Please note: as this class was originally published on Skillshare, there may be some mentions of uploading class projects. Please ignore this if you are not on Skillshare.
I hope you enjoy the class! If you have any questions about it, feel free to send me a DM or email hello@sarahhollidayart.com.
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