By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips Ever wonder what’s the most difficult—and most time consuming—part of a landscape to draw? Duplicate the grass until you have a good amount - you can use the object paint feature if you're using 3DSMax, but don't go crazy you still want it to have breathing space. For me, a good way of looking if a texture is out of scale, mostly with grass textures, is zooming in and checking the size of the grass itself. Even if your composition only has a small grassy area, it can seem to take years to get it finished, and get it right.

This is the trickiest part of the whole work! This image is a detail from an original painting by the author, showing texture developed using artist soft pastels.

You can paint the texture in a green color using a different correction. Set the property clouds layer as "Overlay". If you’re like me, it’s the grass. Canvas. Step 1 Draw out the line work for the grass on your canvas. Paint Grass With Oil Paint Things You'll Need. Move it up, above the layer with the grass texture. So anytime I find a different way to draw grass, I sit up and take notice. Make a couple versions of this. Please do not copy and use these images without written permission.

Dirt: Im even more lost with dirt. If it looks too big for the plane, then reduce the size of the texture. Use the bottom layer with the clouds. In this Watercolour landscape painting I will be showing how to paint, mountains buildings, and grass texture, I use coloured pencil for a few enhancements, the paper i used was Daler Rowney 7×10 cold pressed Langton prestige, Take a look at the colour preveiwers at Maria’s website, www.marylkaart.com 6. It really doesn't make any sense to me, and why do all of WoW's dirt textures look like they were painted over real pictures of dirt. It does not have to be exact --- this is simply to mark out the general area where you will apply the grass.

Also you can adjust the size of the texture. Heres two textures from WoW Grass: Im wondering how you would go about making a grass texture like this, or just some techniques in general. Draw a diagonal line that curves at the top of the page to denote hills of grass. Bake it onto a plane - normal and diffuse you can get the alpha from the diffuse. The color of the grass looks unnatural. 7. Use the same method to paint the grass cloth effect, making a "W" and then filling it in. Brushes. In the pack there is a tutorial on how to install the brush, the settings, texture and the "start-sai.exe" file. Oil paints. You can paint the texture paint after 24 hours. Paint thinner. Description of this tutorial in Russian - texture grass… The settings and the elemap file for a grass brush in Paint tool SAI Click on "download", then un-zip the files.

Vertex paint some color variation if you know how to do that. Note: All painting and photographs are by the author and are copyrighted.