Painting Concept Art Environments with Depth

Concept Art Tutorial: Painting Environments
Concept Art Focus: Landscapes

Take a look inside my process—layer by layer—as I design and paint an expansive environment with depth and detail.

Watch this rolling hillside come to life with movement, sunlight and atmosphere, as I design this landscape to engage the viewer and draw them into the scene.
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Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Games Workshop and Neon District among many others.

Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.

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[davidsuppa]

Thank you for making all these painting tutorials, I've been drawing with lines my whole life struggling to get the idea of shape building and painting and this video and your dragon painting really helped me to understand how to build the image. Thanks a lot and nice work!

[randyruedisueli]

The music, this piece of artwork, the valuable lessons. Every single thing is perfect. This is going on repeat while I do our painting tutorials in DPS 😊

[EtherealAlex]

You’re changing lives ❤thank you for these videos with amazing explanations

[lawrenceagyeman]

You're a great teacher sir...my mom even says she loves how you calmly deliver your points.

[DazzlingAction]

I've been lookin for this kind of stuff neat to see people still trying to work this out. Getting color right with depth like this is so tricky.

[solertree]

I'm so glad I discovered your channel! So much excellent information presented in a refreshingly calm way, thank you so much for doing this. And please never change the kind of music you have playing in the background, I love it, it suits the subject matter very well and is very calming. One question: is there a place I can find some of the brushes you use?

[leandroxavier]

Always a masterpiece... Someday I'll do something as beautiful as this. Great again, Hardy.

[AlwaysDrawing]

This is an amazing tutorial! Thank you for sharing, Hardy!

[KarleeHankin]

Okay, I this. How chill. And simple enough to replicate and learn a great deal! Thanks a million Hardy :)

[ardelaflor]

Hey Hardy, please stop doing these videos!!! I can't stop watching them again and again! Gorgeous style, great explanations, relaxing, inspiring... They are the perfect complement to the Concept Art Academy :-). After watching it I could not help grabbing my stylus and try some environments! By the way, what's the music reference? Great choice for the video!

[snowxuedietrich]

Soooo happy to see environment videos! Looking forward to more!!!

[pablokalaka]

Awsome! like this video and the final piece! I´m learning from you and some others this drawing from shapes thing. Thanks!

[jessikacaroline]

Amazing! I hope to be good like this someday!

[gabrielm]

Hardy ... truly inspiring work, I am so grateful for allowing us to enjoy the creative processes. Some time ago I purchased almost all the courses you had on Udemy. As soon as I can economically I would like to sign up on your own platform in the concept Artist career. I really admire your work and have learned a lot from it. In the future it would be fabulous if the race could have Spanish subtitles for all those fans who are Spanish-speaking. Thank you very much, Hardy ... happy new year.

[MichaelWesselCreative]

Cool vid but like 80% of technique wasn’t even mentioned, near dark, far light, near big, far small, seemed to be the focus. Wish there would have more about light source, shadows, color choice, atmospheric affects like blurred layers. Relaxing to watch thought.

[mayudrake]

Beautiful video and very chilling to watch. I love looking at your environment paintings to explore them. You have the talent to make the viewer curious about what may be behind those hills and stones. If your environments were for a video game, I would be very tempted to buy it just to explore the beautiful world in it!
Hardy, have you ever considered to do an underwater environment painting for one of your courses or youtube videos?

[aszasz]

It looks great. Watching you paint is a pleasure. I just finished the Painting Environments course on udemy (which is a game changer for me ;D) but I think I'll try to paint something like that as well. Thank you very much. ;)

[Mr.McWatson]

I really like the music combined with the speed painting, super relaxing. Do you do some thumbnails first, or just dive right in?

[EricOlorunfemi]

Oh! This video just gave me an epiphany!!! I'm trying this out right now...

[martmart.]

20:00 i was so immersed i went on and clicked the "minimize" for the brush settings tab.. made me pause the video and snap me back to reality