How to draw Fantasy Map Mountains - 5 easy styles to make your maps look awesome.
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- 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
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Which is your favourite?
3
3 and 5. 💜
1 and 3
2
1 near a desert, 5 but with connected ridges like 3 would be my favorite 😊
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.
Good idea!
This is SO amazing, thank you! 5 is for sure my favourite! 🏔
So awesome! I never thought I was interested in this type of art but your videos show me otherwise. Thanks!
Very beautiful and so easy to follow through. Thanks a lot, and keep up your great works!
This is the easiest to follow that I've seen! Thanks for the tutorial :)
2 and 5 are my favourites. Can't wait to try them out 😁
Hey Owen, you’re videos are awesome!! These references are so easy to draw yet they look so sophisticated. I love your work; thank you for helping me improve on this hobby of mine.
Btw, I was favoring #3 but ended up really liking #1 the most!! It looks much better with forests at the base of the mountains in my opinion.
Thank you for this, incredibly helpful!
Wow! What a fantastic overview on mountains! My maps will definitely look better using these styles.
3 is definetly my favourite
Very surprised by technique 3 ! I've learned the others before but that one was very new & I love it !
Hi Harley, sorry for my slow response here. This is the sort of comment I absolutely love to see, thank you so much!
No. 2 looks best imo
Beautiful 🤩
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!
Hi Dan, that's so great to hear! Do you put your maps online anywhere? I'd love to see them. Thank you for the comment :)
Thank you so much!!
thank you so much
this is so awesome!!!
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.
What a lovely comment! Thank you. Please do share your work/book when it’s ready. I’d love to see it
Number 5 looks the most real so I’ll have to go for that
i love the way my map turned out because of the mountains, espacially mountain 2
This channel is so underrated. Let it be known I was here early :D
Thank you! Your presence here is noted, just in case something good happens 😊
Amazing
damn your mountains looks majestic
Hey Owen, Your top of the peak, mountaineering graphic skills are paramount, superbly scaled creations.
And........Argh! Maps of ancient far off lands are the bedrock of fantasy lore.
I can’t believe I missed this comment. A belated thank you, that’s so cool! 😁
I want to make a huge 36x50 inch "Risk" game board for my own version of the board game RISK> this is so impressive! I want to draw mountain ranges and deserts and so-forth on a world map that I will make from scratch to make the game board. I will have to practice this.
I love 3 and 5. I'm going to have to try out 3 for my next map.
Thanks Edward, do you post your maps anywhere? I'd love to see them!
Holy shit, this is beautiful.
Thank you so much!
I think 2 and 5 look really cool but my favorite is 4.
wow very good informatioıns thanks
Cool.
Awesome
Big fan of #3
5th one is the best one here.
WOW!!!
5 is close to how I do mountains. Good video!
Thank you Tony. Do you post yours online anywhere?
@@MapsbyOwen freezingtouch on Instagram
@@tonyobert3545 Great, popped you a follow! Keep those maps coming :)
You rock !!!... Did you get it?... Rock.... Mountains... ?... forget it! :P... !
I've noticed that people from the northern hemisphere always draws the shadows in the right side while all southern guys (like me) draw the shadows in the left.
That's cool but how do you draw mountain ranges going east to west?
Technic 3 is my favorite
Thanks!
you make it look so easy... mine looks like my granny's varicose veins 😝 practice practice practice....
thanks for the knowledge sir
Hahahaha, I love that description! I think you're right, practice indeed. Good luck!
revisiting here to train my mountains more.
How using more the 4 style. Thanks again for the video
Awesome! Do you post your pictures online anywhere?
Can't believe more people haven't seen this! Great work, will definently try drawing likes this, personally I really like number 1 to 3 which is a problem because I can't decide which one I want to try first as of yet
Hey Owen, I was wondering; maybe you could do a hills tutorial? And a cave tutorial! You know dungeons usually are present a lot in campaigns! Cheers mate!
Hi, Hills definitely! For caves, do you mean more like dungeon maps, or just how to add cave entraces to your land maps?
@@MapsbyOwen yea and how you can add them in mountains!
I really like type three right now 3:51
In the end I like 2 and 5 better. But I can't decide between them now.
It also really depends on what type of mountains I want to depict too.
In your personal opinion, which would you recommend for a large world map with the intention of mainly showing location not size
3
Before tweak:
1 ❤️🖤🖤🖤🖤
2 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
3 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
4 ❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤
5 ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤
After tweak:
1 ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤
2 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
3 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
4 ❤️❤️❤️🖤 🖤
5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
I most use the 4th shape and the 3rd shading when I draw.
Thanks Adriano, do you post yours anywhere? Would love to see them
@@MapsbyOwen Hi, Owen. I never posted a single one. I'm still learning the basics and trying some many new styles and tools (like gimp for Ubuntu and sketchbook for Android). Unfortunately I haven't drawn a single map in the last month.
@@adrianordp You should put them online! Honestly, I think people love to see the work of beginners (hey, maybe you're not a beginner, but you know what I mean).
i like 5 currently
How do you draw mountains left to right?
two and three.
I’m trying no.2
Do you have any examples of using style 1 in a larger map? Been trying my hand at mountains that aren't just triangles with some shading, but can't seem to get the perspective right for two different mountain ranges, with one running more horizontally. This tutorial was super helpful by the way, thanks a bunch!
Hi, thanks for the comment and sorry for my slow response. www.mapsbyowen.com/freemaps/troegisland is kind of using this style. I think for it to work, you have to draw with perspective, rather than top down. Maybe I'll see if I can incorporate this into a future video. Thanks again
@@MapsbyOwen No worries, thanks for the reply regardless.
I figured that was the case, completely top down mountains and perspectives have been really hard for me to draw so if you ever do a video covering it that would be amazing!
Thanks again!
@@mouse5779 Great idea, that's going on the list!
Im having a problem with mountains that look 3D such as with 3, which make lakes look 2D to my eye. What would be a good way to address this? Thanks
how do you draw a mountain horizontally?
I have practiced your techniques. But in my story a cataclysm broke the continent. Reformingthe mountains into an east to west orintation. Do you have any techniques for drawing mountains this way?
How would you do #1 east to west? I can't wrap my mind around it horizontally rather than vertically...
I had some luck doing this, you just add slopes to the south side of the ridgeline and then shade a little to the right of the slope lines.
1, 2
HA! Mine do NOT come out looking as good as that. Gonna keep working though.
I liked the 2, 3 and 5. But i only can draw, mor or less, with the 4.
I bet you could do them all with ease! Do you post them anywhere?
@@MapsbyOwen Not yeat, i finish a cartography course last week and start tp draw then.
@@SifuMarcusMartins Cool! What was the course? Something online I assume?
@@MapsbyOwen Yeap, i made a cartography course online with a brazilian cartographer and writer. Fantasy Cartography.
2 and 3, but I’m too scared of them - mine just look like overcooked spaghetti 😂🙈
hahahaha, I can't picture it but I love the idea of that! Thanks for the comment :)
3 looks like razor-like peaks near a volcano or other sinister-looking area. each one im doing looks like garbage but still trying
Practice is the key! Keep on going and message me on Instagram if I can help at all
❤1. I tried hundred times but I couldn't draw 😭
2
Cool, that’s a good option! I use that method quite a bit
I just don't understand any of these, whatever I try to draw just ends up looking like a hot mess of random lines
Keep practicing, it can take quite a few attempts before you'll get used to it and getting the result you want may take even longer.
I think it can take some time to get the hang of these. When I first started out, my mountains all looked terrible and it took a long time before they started to make sense. Keep at it and do share your work with me if you want me to take a look and offer any pointers. Thanks!
Good advice this! Thank you