PAINT UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS
Artist PROFILE
Alayna Danner
LOCATION: US
Alayna is a fantasy illustrator based in Seattle. She’s currently working on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons projects.
Painting cityscapes or natural environments can be intimidating, but after a couple years’ practice it’s become my favourite thing to do.
In this workshop I’ll be working on creating a new fantasy cityscape environment piece from scratch. I don’t use advanced techniques – everything is rendered in Photoshop, exclusively using the Brush tool and different layer modes. You can use any version of Photoshop to follow along with this workshop, or likely any real 2D drawing program of your choice, provided that the software enables you to use layers and you have a pressure-sensitive tablet to hand.
I use an old-school technique for creating perspective lines to define architecture, by using a horizon line and vanishing points. I’ll explain how to
