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The Complete Environment Painting Super Course (Udemy.com)

Learn to Draw and Paint Environments from Imagination

Created by: Colton Dubell

Last updated June 2020

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What you will learn

  • Drawing in, and understanding perspective
  • Rendering objects realistically and methodically
  • Color theory and Lighting fundamentals
  • Painting full detail landscapes step by step from start to finish
  • drawing environments and painting from imagination

How it compares

Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 67% of them
  • Reviews802#69 of 195 by number of reviews
  • Length14.2 hourslonger than 89% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2020earlier than 62% of them

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Course Description

The Complete Environment Painting Super Course will give you a total introduction to digital painting landscapes and environments. Or your money back.


Throughout this course, you’ll be taught the art and design skills you always wanted to learn. Whether you’re just learning as a hobbyist, or you plan on becoming a professional digital illustrator or concept artist. This is the perfect course for you.


Throughout this course you’ll be going through over 13 hours of live narrated content, over 30 lectures, and 55 downloadable resources. First I’ll be bringing you through the very basics of perspective, then shading and rendering, and finally drawing and painting your very own beautiful scenes and backgrounds from scratch.

Here’s what you’ll get in this course:

  • Instant access to all 30 lectures, in 7 sections.

  • over 13 hours of live, narrated content where I’ll be bringing you through every step in real time.

  • Full money back guarantee within 30 days of purchasing the course!


The course is laid out in an easy to understand format:

  • First I’ll be teaching you the fundamentals of perspective. We’ll go through 1 and 2 point perspective, offering the same assignments that I had when I was a student in some of the top design schools.

  • After that, I’ll be teaching you the importance of lighting and how to shade and render the basic elements that create everything. Spheres, Cubes, Cones, and Cylinders. These are the elements that make up almost everything around us.

  • Next you’ll be learning about color theory and which colors to choose for your shadows and lights. Color is an essential part of establishing the mood in a painting.

  • After this you’ll be combining the basic forms in order to bring what we’ve learned so far together and make some recognizable scenes.

  • Next we move on to jumping straight into building our first scene. You’ll start by drawing out a line work and setting up the perspective exactly how I taught you in the perspective lessons. We’ll focus on composition and object placement to make the most of the space in our canvas. Focusing heavily on setting up our image to achieve a feeling of depth, which is one of the most important things in environment painting.

  • After this we refine the sketch to further enhance the idea. Redrawing it and making sure all of our elements are in place before painting.

  • Next we’ll begin by roughly painting the main colors in. Figuring out what color everything is as well as how things change color the further they get away. Applying what we learned earlier in the color theory into some real painting situations.

  • Lastly after we get the main elements of our painting established. Our colors in place, and everything set up. We’ll start detailing the painting and adding all the little elements that bring the painting to life. Painting grass, wood, fencing and trees.

  • In the next session we’ll do another line work. Starting rough and working cleaner. I’ll teach you to draw on top of a 3 point perspective grid.

  • This painting will be started by first finding all of our shadows before we start with colors. It’s important to know our shadows and lighting before we start adding details.

  • After this the next few hours are spent adding tons and tons of detail. I’ll be explaining how high detail images are really just a series of decisions made over and over and is actually quite simple. By the end of this section you’ll be a master of detail!



Throughout this entire course you’ll be learning:

  • How to use perspective and understand it

  • How to choose great and lively colors

  • How to render and shade objects realistically

  • Starting a sketch

  • Finishing a sketch

  • Starting a painting

  • finishing a painting

  • adding lots of details

  • tips and tricks on painting, drawing, environments, etc

  • tons of live narrated drawing

  • over 50 downloadable resources!



Other Benefits:

  • You’ll also be getting access to the Q&A section

  • Lifetime access to all the course material.

  • Contact with me, your instructor

Sign up today and take the next step to growing as an artist!

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Instructor Details

Colton Dubell

My name is Colton Dubell, I'm a concept artist in the game industry. I have a huge passion for teaching and sharing knowledge, and think that quality education should and can be both affordable and very high quality. It's my belief that anyone who has the determination and patience to become an amazing artist can absolutely do it!

My work experience as a concept artist includes working in the video game industry, in addition to AAA video games I’ve been a designer on mobile games and several theme park projects.

I graduated from FZD School of Design in Singapore and also attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California for a year before quitting to work full time as a designer.

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Reviews

4.7

802 ratings on Udemy

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By Wendy de Boer on 5/3/2023

A decent brief overview of fundamentals, but it doesn't go really in-depth into anything. Some nice demos, also. I was hoping to get a little more out of it as an intermediate artist, though. I figured it would be good for me to take a beginners course on environments, since I'm actually a character artist. But it really was more aimed at complete beginners, I felt.

By Nilay Barboros on 7/18/2021

It is an awesome and detailed course so that it gives you the answers to not only "how?" but also to "why?" questions with which I struggled the most... The reasons why we do things we do... I had never imagined I could understand these concepts and improve this fast. The instructor is a genius! I have already purchased the other painting course. Thank you for this amazing experience!

By Chandan Clough on 2/17/2021

This course and teacher are absolutely amazing. The instructions are very clear, easy to follow and the teacher knows his stuff. I highly recommend this course. I've studied art for more than 30 years and I had a lot of gaps in my knowledge that prevented me from progressing. This course and the instructor have made a huge impact on my art career. Thank you Colton Dubell.

By Dario Rodriguez on 11/25/2020

I've enjoyed so much this course... really, really thank you for putting your awesome skills and teaching attitude into this course. Definitely I'll follow the next ones you put on here! In short: clear explanations, in-depth reasoning, nice art and good pacing. I feel I've learned a lot and am super-excited to put all this new knowledge to good use in my drawings. Congrats to the instructor!

By Isaac Chuah on 11/14/2020

Although it has a lot of the same content as ModernDayJames' YT channel, it goes way more into depth on how you would go about doing certain bits and bops which really advanced my knowledge.This is especially true for the line weight lecture.

By Mike Martinez on 11/14/2020

So far, this course has been very effective within the confines of what environmental concept art should be. I've been learning about point perspective and also color ambience! All essential to the development of creating such desired endeavours!

By Agi Lobita Japtara Martadinata on 11/1/2020

terima kasih atas kursusnya, kau telah meningkatkan kemampuan menggambarku

By Patrice Ellis on 10/25/2020

Thus far, the concepts are very clear and concise, and the examples and assignments perfectly complements each lesson.

By Amber Correll on 10/21/2020

Colton is a fabulous teacher! This is exactly the kind of methodology for creating beautiful imaginative art that I've been needing. I love how the curriculum eases you into the projects, and never makes you feel rushed, lost, or overwhelmed. It's so easy to follow along and he's excellent at explaining what he's doing and his thought process during. I highly recommend any of his courses!

By Jon Petty on 10/18/2020

First impression is good.)

By Erica E on 9/27/2020

I'm almost finished with this course and have really enjoyed it so far! I'm complete beginner with environments, so everything was brand new to me going in. Everything was easy to understand, but I wish more time had been spent on cylinders and cones. Other than that, everything was good and I feel like I have a solid foundation to work with now. The instructor Colton does a great job of sharing his thoughts, intentions, and reasoning behind what he does, especially in later lessons where he walks you through the full process from rough sketch to adding polish. He's pretty enthusiastic and upbeat, which makes it easy to stay engaged even on the longer videos.

By Joao Henrique Lewi Accioly Correia on 9/24/2020

Im really learning a lot in this course, Mr Colton really has an amazing way to explain how to build a high quality landscape painting, even in his most simple and starting lessons i was capable to have an considerable evolution in my paintings. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Mr. Colton!!

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Overall Score : 94 / 100