Iceland Waterfall Landscape In Procreate

1. Intro: Iceland is known for its natural beauty, from volcanoes to glaciers, to northern lights, but it's waterfalls are some of the largest and most magnificent in the world. Waterfalls are a pleasure to watch and delight to paint, They are a challenging subject. But if handled properly, painting a waterfall, it can be very satisfying experience. In today's class, we will be painting one of the most spectacular and beautiful waterfalls in Iceland, which is Skogafoss. You can paint this beautiful waterfall and about 20 to 25 minutes. Isn't that amazing? We will learn how to make waterfall looks soft and misty. We will see the brushes to achieve the rocky look around the waterfall. By the end of the class, you will be able to, to paint Rocky Mountains waterfall and so much more in Procreate confidently and easily. I have also included a bonus class for you to try where we will be painting the same waterfall. You will be surprised to see a complete different painting using the same brushes and techniques. So if you're ready, let's get started and paint this majestic waterfall landscape. 2. Tools Required: Now let's quickly look at the tools that is required to start the projects. We need an iPad and Apple Pencil and procreate application. I am using seventh generation iPad for the project. I'm using the latest version of Procreate application, which is 5.2. 4. Canvas Details: So let's the first project where we will be painting. One of the waterfall of Iceland, and that is going to be Skogafoss waterfall. Open the Procreate app and tap on this plus icon that you see on the top-right corner. And you will get the list of canvases here. And I will go with this, A4 canvas for this project. Now, I'm going to turn it around like this. And we are ready with a canvas for the project. 5. Painting the Sky and Clouds: Now let us look at the color palette. So I have this project one color palette ready here. I've uploaded this resource section, so I hope you have downloaded it and imported them to the Procreate application. So now if you're ready, let's start The project. Go to the color palette. and pick this 1st color from the project one palette. Tap on the Brush Library, airbrushing, and go with the soft brush. I'm going to set the opacity of the brush to about 100%. And I will set the size of this brush to 30%. And I am going to fill the top section. That is this sky section with this color. I've filled about half of the canvas with this color. By applying horizontal strokes. Now, tap on the layer and rename this layer one. And I'm going to rename it as Sky. We are ready with the first layer. Now tap on the plus icon and create a new layer. And I'm going to rename this layer 2 as clouds, where we will be adding some clouds to this blue sky. And go to the color palette and pick this second color from the project one pallet. Go to the brush library. I'm going to the cloud brush set. So I'll go with this cloud 3 brush, which I have included in the resource section. I'm going to set the opacity of the brush to a 100% and size to about 22 23%. Let me set it to about 25%. I will add the clouds in this area. So if want the entire cloud, brush set, you can check out my other class of clouds where I have included the complete set. So this is how you add the clouds .Tap on the screen and drag the tip of your pencil on the screen and add some random clouds like this. Now go back to the color palette and pick this last but one color which is white color. And go over and add some white clouds. Don't worry about the shape. It's just random shaped cloud so that we have clouds ready. And don't worry about the bottom section as well. It's going to be covered by the mountains. So this is the layer of sky and clouds ready. 6. Adding the Mountain: The layer of sky and clouds. Ready now let's go to the next layer. So tap on the Layers and create a new layer. And I'm going to rename this layer three as mountains. Go to the color palette and pick this black color with just a fifth color from Project One palate .Go to the Brush Library, calligraphy and select this mono line brush. Set this opacity of the brush to a 100%, and I will set the size to about 15%. I'm going to add a curvy line which is going to be the outline of the mountain. I'm going to start somewhere from this section and I'm going to fill in this area covering the bottom section of the sky and the clouds. I'm going to draw a curvy line like this. And now I'm going to drag and drop this black color to this mountain area. There we have the mountain area to d. Now let's add some details. That is, add some texture to this mountain. layer. Tap on the layers and apply alpha lock on this layer so that whatever texture you apply stays within this mountain layer and doesn't go to the sky layer. Now go to the color palette and pick this brown shade with just the six color from the palette. Go to Brush Library, organic and use this Spires brush. I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 15 per cent and opacity is set to a 100%. And I will add some texture to this mountain area like this. This is going to give it a nice rocky look. So there I have applied a layer of texture, the mountain layer. 7. Adding Texture to the Mountain: Now go to the color palette and pick this green , 3rd color from the palette. And I will use the same brush and I will add some green texture to this mountain layer by going over like this. Adding some texture on the other side as well. Now go back to the palate. And pick this 4th color, the other shade of green. Now go to the Brush Library, organic and go with this mountain ash brush. I will set the opacity of this brush to about 60%. And I will set the size of this brush to about 35 to 30 %, set it to around 32%. And I will tap on the screen like this, add some texture to this rocky mountain area. You see some really cool texture on this Mountains, those green patches. The gives really cool effect on this rocky mountain like the mosses . So there it is. So I'm going to add some more texture and add in some more depth to this mountain. So go to the color palette and pick this black shade. And if you think it looks too greeny or add in some black texture, again, using the same brush. We'll go back to the color palette and this green. Go to the Brush Library and organic and use this Spires brush. I will reduce the size of this brush to around 10% and opacity set to a 100%. And I will add some more details. to this mountain layer like this at some random spots of this mountain layer like this. Giving it some lighter and some darker shade to this mountain area, creating more depth. So you can already see a lot of depth and this mountain layer keeping some areas dark and some areas where you have this greenish moss like effect. Now go back to the color palette and paint this black shade from the palette and go over using the same brush and darken some areas. You can keep repeating, changing the colors between green and black until you're happy with how the mountain looks. Again, I am changing the size of this brush and going one, adding some more details. Like I mentioned. Add in the details until you're happy with how realistic the mountain looks. This will be the area where we will have the waterfalls when keeping in dark or hills can see. I will go back to the palette and I will darken few ares going with this black shade. I'm pretty happy with how realistic this already looks. So I'm going to stop adding the details here, and let's move on to the next section of adding the waterfall. 8. Painting Waterfall: Tap on layers and create a new layer. And I'm going to rename this layer 4 as waterfall. Go to the color palate. And pick this white color, which is the last but one color from Project One palette. Go to Brush Library, airbrushing, and go with this soft brush. This will be the brush that we will use to add the waterfall. So I'm going to set the opacity to 100% and size to about 25%. And I will add the waterfall like this. Before doing this, you can see that the details are going outside this mountain layer to this sky layer. So I'm going to undo this layer. I am going to the layer and applying clipping mask so that it follows the mountain layer. Mountain layer is going to be the parent layer Now, using the soft brush, I am going to add in the waterfall detail like this. Now, just by adjusting the pressure on the tip of the pencil, you can get the brighter shade or very light shade by just adjusting the pressure on the tip of the pencil. And this is how it looks. Let me undo and start from the beginning. I've increased the size to about 30 per cent. Now start from the top of the fall like this by applying very gentle strokes as the waterfall touches the. ground the fall gets wider. So I'm widening the area here by again, applying very gentle strokes and widening the fall at the bottom. I'm adding one more here. The repeating the same step. Apply very gentle strokes are applied very little pressure on the tip of the pencil and add this soft strokes for the waterfall. Now, if you apply a lot of pressure, the fall will go flat. Now, the decrease is still size to about 15%. Now, using the smallest size brush that does the same style of brush, I am going to make this top section of the waterfall area more brighter by applying more pressure on the tip of the pencil. Like this. At the starting point of the waterfall, it should look brighter or more white. So I'm applying more pressure on the pencil. And towards the end it is going to look because the water is going to spread. It will look more like fog. We will apply a little pressure or towards the end of the fall like this. Now, make sure that you leave some gaps in between that is that the mountain layer as visible and you're not filling this complete area with this white strokes. So that little color variation makes it more interesting and makes it look more realistic. The hard edges of the rocks in contrast with the soft edges water makes the looks very pleasing, I'm going to zoom in and show you meet the edges softer and that it doesn't look like a definite white line. So you can play around the soft brush to create the soft realistic effect. 9. Adding the Mist: So keep thinner strokes, at the starting point of waterfall and make it thicker towards the bottom. By just adjusting the size and the pressure on the tip of your pencil. So this is how it looks. By applying gentle strokes, you can see different variations. Or varies colors of the water. And it does not look like a patch of white stroke. Now I'm going to increase the size of this brush to about 40% and I going to add mist. here in the bottom section by going with circular strokes like this. And again, keep changing the pressure on the tip of the pencil. So this has to be like really soft, very gentle strokes. circular strokes Adding the mist where the waterfall meets the river will enhance the illusion of water in motion. We can also depict mist in the background to increase the depth of the painting. Increasing the size further, and adding circular strokes in the other side of the canvas. Make sure that you are applying very gentle strokes to achieve that misty effect, showing like shades of gray. I'm going to fill this complete bottom section, with the mist using this soft brush. We'll now go to the color palette and make this gray color from the palette and add some grey mist in-between this white mist. Now go back to the palate and pick white and just add some light mist and the top. Making some more adjustment to this waterfall area 10. Final details: Now reduce the size of this brush to about 18% and make some final adjustments. And the top section of the waterfall, using the same soft brush. Making this top section really soft and smooth. This as the final result of our first project. I hope you enjoyed creating this beautiful landscape. 12. Painting the Sky and Mountain: Now let's start with the bonus project where we are painting different version of the same waterfall. So we will be painting the same Skogafoss waterfall in winter. One amazing fact about this waterfall is that the water does not freeze in winters, so you can still see the waterfall in the winter and we are going to paint that now. I will be using this project 2 color palette, which I have included in the resource section as bonus project palette. This is the one that we will be using. It that's very minimal colors. Let's start the project. I will pick this first color from the palette, which is light blue. We'll do the brush library, airbrushing, and select the soft brush. Set the size of this brush to about thirty-five percent and opacity is set to 100%. And I will fill the top section of the Canvas with this shade. About 1/4th of the canvas. Go to the adjustments icon Gaussian blur and set the blur to about 30 to 35%. I'm going to set it to around 30%. tap on the layers and rename this layer one. I'm going to rename, it as Sky. Now tap on + icon and, create a new layer. And I'm going to rename this layer 2 as mountain. Go to the color palette and pick the second color, which is the black color. Go to the Brush Library, calligraphy and select the mono line brush. I'm going to set the size of this brush. to about ten to 15% or I'll set it to 10%. And opacity is set to 100% and draw a curvy line for the top section of the mountain like this. So it is similar to the one that we did in the project. Once that is done and drag and drop the color to the mountain area. Now it's time to add the details to this mountain layer. So we will be adding texture to this mountain layer. 13. Adding texture to the mountain: I will go to the color palette and pick this 3rd color, which is white color. Now go to the Brush Library. Before that, to apply texture, go to the mountain layer and apply Alpha Lock. Now go to the Brush Library, organic and select this Spires brush. I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 20-21 per cent and opacity is set to a 100%. And I will start applying texture to this mountain layer like this. I'm going to fill in the top section of the mountain with the texture. Now go to the color palette and pick this 4th color from the palette, which is a kind of dark gray. I'm using the same Spires brush. I'm going to add some texture to the bottom section of the mountain. Now go back to the color palette and pick black color, second color from the palette and go over this texture. White texture that we applied previously. Now, again, this brush works great to show the mountain covered with snow. So you can make it lighter or darker. Like it can be more white, covered completely with snow or you can keep it dark, showing the rocky area of the mountain. So it's up to you how you want it. So I am going back to the palate and picking white. And I'm going to add some more white texture to show the mountain covered with snow. So it's up to you how you want it. You can cover it entirely with snow or you can leave more rocky texture to the mountain. I'm going to reduce the size further and adding a few more details or texture to this mountain. Applying very little pressure on the tip of the pencil and adding some light texture to the bottom section of the mountain using the same color. So now this looks almost ready. I'm going back to the black color and the areas that look more white. I'm going to darken it by adding some strokes using the same brush. 14. Painting Waterfall: Go to the color palette. Before that, let's create a new layer for adding the waterfall. So I'm going to create the layer three and apply clipping mask on the layer. Go to the color palette and pick white that is 3rd color from the palette. Go to airbrushing and select the soft brush. Soft airbrush. So this is going to be the same process that we did for our project. I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 18%. And I will start from the top section. And I'm going to widen the waterfall as it reaches to bottom by applying, vertical strokes like this, I'm going to reduce the pressure on the pencil and keeping it more light as I reach the bottom section, that is, I'm going to keep the colored grey and dull towards the bottom of the waterfall. So I will add one more Waterfall here and repeat the same process. I'm widening it here At the bottom. I'm going to increase the size to about 20-22% and adding some smooth strokes here at the bottom sections. I'm going to reduce the size down and I add one more here. Let me just zoom in and show it to you. So this is how smooth you need to keep it. I'm smoothening the edges. Keep adjusting the size of this soft airbrush to add soft strokes and crisp strokes like this. It does pretty much the similar process that we followed for our project. To add this waterfalls. 15. Adding Mist: I am thinking about adding one more small fall here. I will add one more here. I'm not going to take it all the way till the bottom. I'm going to stop at somewhere in the middle. This looks great now. So that is a dot here I am gonna erase it. Now it's time to add some mist. So I am going to pick the same color that is white color from the palette. Go to the Brush Library, we Spraypaints and select this ultra fine nozzle brush. This is the brush that we will use to add the mist. I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 10%. And opacity they said 100 per cent. And I will start adding circular strokes. Make me increase the size for though, I will set it to about twenty-five percent. And I will start adding the mist in circular strokes like this. I'm going to fill in this bottom section with the mist where the waterfall touches the ground or the river or lake or whatever it is. I'm leaving some gap in-between and keeping it dark, so that it is not entirely white. the mist, area, is not entirly white. We can add some more adjustments later on. So this is what it is, so I'm happy with that. Now go back to the color palette and pick black and add some black in-between this white mist. 16. Painting Iceblocks: Now let's move on to the next section, Tap on the Layers and create a new layer where we will be adding the ice blocks. I'm going to rename this layer as ice blocks. We will be adding on the left and the right side .go to the color palette and pick white that is 3rd color from the palette. Go to Brush Library calligraphy and select this mono line brush. I'm going to zoom in and I'll show you how to add the ice block. So I'm going to add a curvy line like this. And I will draw one more line from the bottom. So it need not be straight again, I'm adding a curvy line. Now. Similarly, I will add one more on the right side. Then join and draw a bottom line for this ice block. Now, drag and drop the color of this blocks on the left and the right. Now I'm not happy with the one on the left, so I'm going to erase it. And draw it once more using the same brush, the mono line brush. I'm going to zoom in and start somewhere at the bottom. add the bottom section first and now draw the top section of this ice block and join it with the bottom line. And now drag and drop the color. So make sure that there is no gap between the top line and bottom line so that you can drop the color. Otherwise it is going to fill the completely layer with white color. Now apply alpha lock on this layer. Go to the color palette and the pick this 4th color from the palette. Go to Brush Library charcoals, and select this burnt tree brush. We will add some texture to this ice block. So I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 8%. And I will add just a tiny amount of texture to this ice block like this. You need not make it too dark and just keep the texture very minimal. Add it at some portions of this ice block mounting it on the other side as well, so that's it. 17. Adding the details: It's now done. Now go back to the color palette and pick white, and lighten the area. Now if you think it is too dark, the texture that to apply, you can pick white from the palette and go over the black area using the same brush. Now go to the color palette and pick white. Now go to the layers and go back to layer three, but I forgot to rename it as waterfall and create a layer above it. Go to the Brush Library, airbrushing, and select the soft airbrush. Now I'm using this brush to soften the bottom section as well as the top section of this ice block. So I'm going to set the size of this brush to about 15% and opacity is set to 100% and I will soften edges. So similarly go to the top section of this ice block and soften . These edge or the curvy line as well. I'm just going over are going over that line and softening it. So since we are using a soft brush, so it is going to have a really soft look. Similarly repeat the same process, for the ice block on the other side. I'm adding the soft edges on the layer below the ice block layer. Repeat this same process on the bottom section as well. And we had this soft ice blocks on both the sides ready. This is how it looks. Adding some more final adjustments to this block. This is now done and looks good. Let's move on to the next section. 18. Painting water ripples: Now tap on layers and as you can see, I have forgotten to rename this layer three and layer 5 So layer three is going to be the waterfall and mist and layer 5 is going to be that soft edges for ice blocks. So I just erased that extra wide portion that was there on Layer five. That's it. Let's move on to the next section now, go back to the color palette and pick white from the palette, tap on layers and go to the layer three is this waterfall layer. Go to the Brush Library, airbrushing and select Soft Brush. Select soft airbrush. I'm going to set the size of this brush to about the 40% and opacity is set to a 100% and I will add some more mist because it looks too dark. So I'm going to lighten the area here and give it more misty look. This looks Bette to now go to color palette and pick this last color from the palette. Go to the Brush Library, organic, and select the sable brush. Now I'm using this brush, I will add some ripples to this area. That is the bottom section of the mountain layer or the waterfall layer. So this is how it looks. Now, I will go back to the color palette and pick black, and using the same brush, I'm going to darken the area because it looked too light. What does with that gray colors? So I'm going to darken it with the black color. I'm doing all this, in the waterfall layer, that is layer three. This is how it looks. Now let me just zoom out and show you the final result of this bonus, this project. Now, I think the mist area looks too white, so I'm going to go back to the color palette and pick black color from the palette. Go to the Brush Library, airbrushing. And select this soft airbrush, and go back to this layer three, that is the waterfall layer. And I'm going to lighten, or basically darken few areas of this mist layer. Keep adjusting this size according to how you want it. You want a mist to be. And darken few areas. So as usual, I'm going with the circular strokes for adding this mist or darkening the mist area. This looks pretty good now. And now we are done with this bonus project of Skogafoss waterfall in winter. And I hope you enjoyed creating this one. 19. How to export the projects: Now let's see how we can export projects. So I'm first, I'm going to rename these two projects. That is project one. I'm going to rename this as project 2. You can rename it as bonus project so that is project 2. Let's see how we can export these. Tap on Select and select these two projects. Now, tap on Share. And you'll see the image formats in JPEG,PNG,PDF or animated GIF, I'm going to select JPEG and you get this options. on how you want to share it. We can see it. Save it to gallery or you can save it to your files. I'm going to save it to my gallery. And this is how we do. If you go back to the gallery and check, you will have the projects in your gallery. And this is how we export the projects. 20. Conclusion: Thank you so much for watching the class. I hope you love painting this beautiful project of waterfall, landscape and procreate. You can pay more such waterfalls using reference images from sites that offer free majors like Pixabay and Unsplash. If you have tried this projects to upload them to the project gallery. And do not forget to drop off feedback about this class when you finish it. Feel free to reach out for any doubts that you have. Have a nice day and happy painting.