Download Brush Photoshop Mountain PATCHED
Fernande Westmoreland
As with all of my previous brush sets, Hyacinth is free for any use. I distribute my sets with a Creative Common, No Rights Reserved License (CC0), which means you can freely use this and any of my brushes in commercial work and distribute adaptations. No attribution is required. Easy peasy!
Want to see this brush set in use? I put together a sample map, and you can see the results below. There are three versions, a black and white version, one colored, and a decorated sample. Click on any of the images below to view them larger. Perhaps this will inspire you as you get started on your own projects!
This week's freebie is a sample pack of our high res mountain #PSDbrushes. This is just part of a collection we are building. Please enjoy! All we ask is that you share your creations and tag @imaginaryxstudio Download link:
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As you can see, most of the mountains let the background show through, but the mountains themselves are opaque to one another. I also put in one set to the Normal blend mode so you can see the difference.
The clone stamp can also be used to take bits from one image and stamp them into another, so if you want to keep all of your isometric mountains and trees in a single document that you use for every map you make, you can just keep that image open to one side and sample from it instead, saving you the time of prepping the palette inside your working doc. That also has the advantage of letting you pan around your working image while leaving the palette in place.
I changed up my sketching process on the first illustration I did for Every Mountain in an effort to work with more speed and clarity to set the overall direction for the series of illustrations. This meant I did no preliminary sketching and instead worked with large brushes in photoshop to create a speedpaint. Once that was approved and we were all excited about the direction, I moved to my typical illustration process which has me layering and detailing everything. After that, it was time to find the right color palette for the illustration. As it turns out, two of the color options were chosen and used in an animation sequence which simulates the changing light of day.
The September issue of the Annual 2010 brings you two things: a new overland style created with the help of freely available Photoshop brushes of mountains and hills, and the tutorial of how to convert any such brushes available on the web into symbols and catalogs for CC3.
The overland style is based on a map by fantasy cartographer Robert Altbauer and contains a large number of hill and mountain symbols drawn from free Photoshop brushes posted by the good folks on the Cartographer's Guild.
Would you like to learn more about painting mountains? I sure do, so I'm going straight to the work of master artist, Edgar Payne, to see what I can learn! I hope you come along with me in this step by step Acrylic painting tutorial, as I delve into the alpine beauty of one of his awesome pieces of art!
Another important aspect to keep in mind as you paint are your brush strokes! When painting mountains in acrylic, we have ample opportunities to create texture and angles with our brushwork that will capture the natural ruggedness of mountains and mountain ranges. Thoughtfully place these brushstrokes, use them wisely. Whether you are painting plain rocks or rocks covered in snow, think about the direction your brushstrokes are moving; horizontal, vertical, at an angle, etc. and vary them accordingly.