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Ink Sketching: Landscapes
with Aaron Limonick
- Pencil, Ink and Paper
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Learn to capture the scale, rhythm, and texture of the natural world using traditional ink techniques. Concept artist Aaron Limonick shows you how to break complex environments into simple shapes and graphic clusters, making trees, rocks, atmospherics, and terrain easier to draw with clarity and expression. Each chapter builds toward stronger compositions, teaching you how to use texture, silhouette, shape language, and contrast to create landscapes that feel expansive and alive. By the end, you’ll have a full set of finished landscape sketches and the confidence to step outside and draw anything you see. This course also comes with a materials guide covering the pens, paper, and tools Aaron recommends.
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Aaron Limonick
Aaron Limonick is a concept artist and illustrator with more than two decades of experience in the film and game industries. He has created designs for studios including Naughty Dog, HBO, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Blur, and he now serves as a World Art Director at Activision Blizzard. Alongside his production work, Aaron is known for his expressive traditional sketching practice, using pens, markers, and brush tools to explore ideas with clarity, confidence, and bold graphic style.
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Course Lesson Plan
Here's the low-down on everything covered in this course.
- 7 hours 39 minutesTotal Bundle Duration
- 69 VideosVideo Lectures in Bundle
Tools Used ?The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
- Pencil, Ink and Paper
Lesson 1
Analyzing Nature
In this first lesson you will learn to break down complex landscapes into their most basic components, and bring out the personality of natural objects through your sketches.
- 2 hours 53 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 32 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Artistic Reference and Inspiration
Ink Sketching Tools
Getting Inspired by Nature
Large Shapes
Creating Flow
Hero Elements
Lesson 2
Organic Perspective
Now you will learn to group objects together to create easily readable perspective and scale using purely organic forms.
- 41 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 8 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Lesson 3
Texture and Detail
Here you will explore the various ways that ink can convey detail through simple application of texture.
- 1 hour 9 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 9 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Texture and Detail Techniques
Large Detailed Scenes
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Playing with Style
In this lesson you’ll experiment with artistic styles by applying the hero object, clustering and texturing concepts to new types of imagery.
- 49 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 4 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Growing Your Stylistic Influence
Trying Different Styles
Conclusion
Lesson 5
Implementing Shape Language
This lesson will focus on breaking the natural world down into simple yet compelling shapes and patterns.
- 52 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 4 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Shape Language Sketches
Conclusion
Lesson 6
Designing an Epic Landscape
In this lesson, you will utilize everything you’ve learned throughout the course to plan out and sketch an epic landscape scene.
- 1 hour 12 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 12 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Image Prep
Epic Landscape Sketch
Digitizing Your Sketches
Presenting Your Work
Conclusion
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