How to draw Fantasy Map Mountains - 5 easy styles to make your maps look awesome.

Tutorial showing 5 easy ways to draw mountains for your fantasy maps. For each style, see how to sketch, ink and shade. All of these methods are really easy and all originate from the same simple skills which you can learn really quickly.

If you have a go at any of these styles, I would love to see your efforts. See my social links lower down.

0:00 Intro
0:23 Mountain 1 Sketching
1:25 Mountain 2 Sketching
2:08 Mountain 3 Sketching
2:43 Mountain 4 Sketching
3:14 Mountain 5 Sketching
3:37 Mountain 1 Outlining
4:06 Mountain 2 Outlining
4:23 Mountain 3 Outlining
4:41 Mountain 4 Outlining
4:54 Mountain 5 Outlining
5:03 Mountain 1 Shading
5:20 Mountain 2 Details
5:44 Mountain 3 Details
6:01 Mountain 4 Shading
6:40 Mountain 5 Shading
7:25 Mountain 3 Shading
7:38 Mountain 2 Shading
7:49 Mountain 4 finishing touches
8:03 Outro

PRODUCTS USED IN THIS VIDEO

Filming equipment:
Velbon tripod

[zacharyeisenman]

For anyone who loves 3, but is having trouble drawing it. I found that drawing each individual mountain first, then connecting them to be far easier.

[neuter]

style 2 is my favorite. I searched quite a while for a good tutorial video.

[jamiedanae]

This is SO amazing, thank you! 5 is for sure my favourite! 🏔

[conjured_cow]

Very surprised by technique 3 ! I've learned the others before but that one was very new & I love it !

[Jenisonc]

So awesome! I never thought I was interested in this type of art but your videos show me otherwise. Thanks!

[stockcaptain]

I love your channel, keep uploading tutorials! I normally use Inkarnate to make maps but I've started drawing my own, these have helped a lot!

[annahcreates]

This is the easiest to follow that I've seen! Thanks for the tutorial :)

[tonyobert]

5 is close to how I do mountains. Good video!

[michaelanderson]

Gray marker makes for a great shade,
Or for the desert use an ochre or nearly dried out orange.

[edwardp]

I love 3 and 5. I'm going to have to try out 3 for my next map.

[kirkhepburnmiddleagedwhiteguy]

Hey Owen, Your top of the peak, mountaineering graphic skills are paramount, superbly scaled creations.
Maps of ancient far off lands are the bedrock of fantasy lore.

[bartoszmilewski]

2 and 5 are my favourites. Can't wait to try them out 😁

[chipcarver]

Wow! What a fantastic overview on mountains! My maps will definitely look better using these styles.

[Mark_Jonas]

Number 5 looks the most real so I’ll have to go for that

[kannayao]

Very beautiful and so easy to follow through. Thanks a lot, and keep up your great works!

[assassinscreedmaniak]

This channel is so underrated. Let it be known I was here early :D

[TinyTurtles]

I think 2 and 5 look really cool but my favorite is 4.

[Eldanogrande]

Thank you for this series of videos, you're a really good teacher. I'm a writer looking to do a presentable map of my setting and I have just enough artistic ability that I was able to accomplish that with your forest and mountain tutorials. I likes method 1 because I found it easiest and because it fit best with the terrain I had in mind.

[BlueSpirit]

That's cool but how do you draw mountain ranges going east to west?

[pranethravikumar]

i love the way my map turned out because of the mountains, espacially mountain 2