Painting rocks and mountains?

[Lillpeter]

I´ve been trying to paint some nice mountains but it all ends up looking like crap, i tend to end up with to long soft shapes and the rock doesn´t look either hard or big, the contours is never a problem and i guess alot of the very final detailing can be done with overlays etc.

Any tips or process pics would be appretiated

Lp

[NickATnitE]

howdy, What software are you using? it doesn't really matter but I have different techniques for painter/photoshop. In painter I take advantage of the pallet knife load it first with both darker fg/bf than I go to a light fg and dark bg colour I kinda do it bob ross style put a happy little mountain here and one there, oh don't they look happe in their homes... In photoshop I would start with a dark layer that defines the general shape of the mountains and then paint on a screen layer with shape dynamics on to give them 3d forms. hope this helps
ps sorry for my bad text bob ross impression. :wink: