Landscape Illustration

Your first illustrator project:

Atmospheric Perspective Landscape

Using Adobe Illustrator and various tools found within the software, you will be recreating the landscape image to the left.

The video below will demonstrate how to create the illustration's background gradient, the sun, the mountains and the cactus. It will not explain how to create the crescent moon or the stars. That demonstration will be in the next section.


Final landscape.mov

Adding the Moon and stars:

When you are ready to draw the moon and stars into your landscape, follow these step-by-step instructions.