Mountain Drawings Easy Beginner Art Tutorial
Learning how to draw mountains for beginners will teach you everything you need to know to start drawing your own.
You’ll learn a simple approach to mountain drawing that will allow you to add a variety of different style mountains to your artwork. Mountains vary in shape and size. When doing your drawings think about how mountains look in real life, and then simplify them.
These drawings make great accents or can be stand alone drawings. You can draw mountains wherever you want.
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Art Supplies
- Thin black marker
- Paper or cardstock
- Markers
- Pencil
- Click Eraser, Pink Pearl Eraser
- White Gelly Roll pen
How to Draw Mountains Easy
Mountain drawings can be done in all different shapes and sizes. They can be tall and thin. Or they can be short and wide.
Most mountain drawings will have some type of overlapping, which makes them more interesting.
When first learning how to draw mountains, it’s a good idea to practice a few different styles to see what you like.
Begin by drawing the outlines of your mountains. You can make these lines perfectly straight, or you can make them rough and jagged.
It all depends on what style of mountain drawings you want to make.
After you’ve drawn the outline for your mountains, go back and add in some shadows and extra details.
First draw where your shadow is going to be.
Then add some hatching for the shadows. This is done by filling in those sections with parallel lines.
Mountain Doodles
You can make an endless amount of mountain doodles by keeping your drawings simple, and making a few small changes.
You could change the way you draw your shadows, the shape of your mountains, or the type of lines you use. Or you can add some patterns or decorations to your mountains.
Zentangle patterns work really well for this type of mountain doodle.
There are several options for drawing your mountains inside of different shapes or adding other objects or scenery to your drawings.
Adding some pine trees would be a very nice touch. Or maybe a road and a desert.
All of this can be done with just some simple doodle type line drawings.
How to Draw Mountains with Snow Peaks
These mountains look better if they’re drawn taller and more narrow, in my opinion. I also think they look better if the outlines are drawn straight instead of jagged.
Again, use overlapping to make your mountain artwork look more interesting. You can add some variation to the size to make your drawings more interesting as well.
Next draw the snow at the peak of each mountain. Vary the length of the snow as you draw them. There are a variety of ways you can draw the snow. Your lines can be pointed, or rounded off.
Another variation is to make them wider or more narrow. Experiment with how you draw them and have some fun with it.
How to Draw Mountains with Markers
Learning how to draw mountains with markers is really easy. And there’s only a few things you need to keep in mind when using them.
First, if you want to be able to blend your colors together you need to use alcohol based markers. Bic, Sharpie, and Copic for example. As well as many others.
Second, you need to work while the colors are still wet or they won’t mix together. This isn’t a big deal. Just make sure you work on a section at a time.
Third, you need to use colors that are similar to each other if you want to create a smooth transition of color. If your markers are too different they will leave a harder edge.
There are numerous ways to finish your mountain drawings. Adding color is just one of the many ways. And there are many different variations for adding color as well.
You could do a galaxy painting for the sky. Or just add a simple one or two color background. You can make your mountain drawing as simple or as complex as you want to make them.
Try a few different techniques and see which you prefer. The more you practice the better you will get. With practice and repetition you’ll be able to push your creativity and develop your own artistic style.
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Mountain Drawing Ideas
There are so many different ways to draw mountains. You can make your mountains with one peak, or several. You can add snow caps, or leave them off. And there’s so many different ways you can make the shadows on your mountain drawings.
To save time try making them on Artist Trading Cards. This is a great time saver even if you never want to trade them with other artists. The more mountains you draw the better you will get at making them.
There are many different ways you can make your backgrounds as well, and we have a few drawing tutorials that will help. Check out, How to Draw a Galaxy with Markers, or How to Draw a Sunset with Markers.
Final Thoughts & Next Steps
Now that you know how to draw mountains, what’s the next step? If you want to get really good at drawing you need to practice. The more you practice the better you will get.
Your creativity and drawing skills will dramatically improve the more you draw and push yourself to experiment and try new things as well.
Keep things relaxing and enjoyable so you’ll look forward to your creative time. Try making it part of your daily routine and schedule it into your day.
If you want to get really good at learning how to draw mountains, challenge yourself to do a series of them this week. Push your imagination and see what you can come up with.
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