Setting the Scene with Incredible Landscape Art

From colorful autumns to winter wonderlands, landscapes are a timeless subject for artists obsessed with the ever-changing world we live in. They are also accessible to creators of all skill levels (We miss you Bob Ross!), but truly mastering the techniques of landscape art takes time, experience, and more than a few great resources along the way. 

Are you struggling to capture a foggy Parisian riverscape or facing down a deadline for your next fantasy game launch? Here are some of the top assets and tutorials from Cubebrush to speed up your workflow and shed some sunlight on your landscape art challenge. 

Advanced Landscape Materials

Creating textures for every stone, tree, and hill in your project can easily burn up all your available time. In many cases, having a solid portfolio of landscape textures is all it takes to create a convincing and eye-catching scene for your audience in no time. 

These 4k-resolution landscape textures by Likolus CGeros give you instant access to common environmental elements like water, rocks, sand, and snow. You’ll also get some less common textures like cracked lava, tossed beach pebbles, and lunar dust to play with. 

No matter the landscape you’re imagining, these materials will give you a believable, engaging finish for a wide range of environments. 

You’ll get:

• 157 landscape art textures
• 5 meshes and 5 materials

Landscape Reference Photos

One of the most challenging features of landscape art is capturing unusual weather conditions, lighting, and terrain. Mountains, fog, and clouds all create fascinating angles and rapidly changing scenes that scatter light particles in magically compelling ways—if you can capture them!

This set of landscape reference pics by Adrian Relagado brilliantly encapsulates the mysterious features of Sejos in Cantabria, Spain. Its ethereal hills, craggy features, and atmospheric perspectives are cross-hatched with rustic wooden fences and pastureland that define this fascinating region. 

On top of that, Adrian has chosen to feature the dusky fog and clouds that roll in between the valleys, capturing some of the unique glows and shadows this intriguing landscape presents. And the best part is, these photos are all entirely royalty-free, giving you maximum flexibility for your investment. 

This set includes: 

• 180 high-resolution reference images of Cantabria, Spain

Landscape Art Tutorial by Noah Bradley

A picture may say a thousand words… but sometimes you just need a great tutorial. 

This incredible digital lesson by Noah Bradley takes you through every step of creating a desert and stone fantasy landscape with 6 hours of instruction, examples, and commentary. As the first video in his series Art Camp 3, this fully narrated tutorial gives you tips, step-by-step processes, and general insights from a seasoned landscape art professional. 

And if you love this tutorial, it comes with a $50 coupon for the entire Art Camp 3 series—a 12-hour self-directed seminar including demos and lessons about landscape painting. If you decide you’re ready to take the plunge, you can drop into Art Camp 3 at any time!

This tutorial gives you:

• 6 hours of fully narrated, start-to-finish landscape instruction
• A $50 discount on Art Camp 3

Game-Ready Rocky Landscape Assets

Fun fact—fractal coastlines and meandering plateaus offer nearly infinite variation for aspiring artists to capture. But who has the time to create them all from scratch? 

The fact is, a few sets of game-ready assets can give your environments the look and feel of natural, rugged terrain in no time without having to meticulously craft each outcropping from the bedrock up.

That’s exactly what this set of cliffs inspired by Wuzhistan deliver, and they’re a part of a series of assets created by xiaoq2. You can use one to give your next coastline or desert scene some authentic and stark topography, or get a few variations to create combinations of extended terrain. Whichever way you go, it’s never been easier to put compelling landscape features into your next game project. 

This includes:

• 7 mountain outcropping .jpg files

Procreate Landscape Brushes for iPad

Ready to add some phthalo blue and alizarin crimson highlights to your happy little digital canvas without dipping into Bob Ross’s palette? These landscape brushes give you built-in blended landscape textures with the swipe of an iPad stylus in the Procreate app. 

With these tools, you can easily mimic those blurry leaf, water, and atmospheric textures that traditional landscape artists utilize to create compelling, expressive landscape art. Not only do they turn your stylus into a range of traditional art tools, but they are already optimized for Procreate 5! 

With this brush pack, you’ll be able to turn every moment with your tablet into a plein air opportunity to quickly capture a vivid sunset or Impressionist environment. 

This brush pack gives you:

• 14 realistic landscape art brushes for Procreate 5

Elevate Your Landscape with Cubebrush

No matter where your adventures take you, Cubebrush’s library of landscape art brushes, references, and tutorials will always be on hand to help you capture the masterpiece Mother Nature conjures up. You’ll never set foot in the same river twice, but the tricks and techniques you can learn from our digital creators will make sure you’ve got the tools to bring your next project to life. 

Visit the Cubebrush Marketplace to find the digital assets for any project on the horizon!