

Some of our favourite mountains to draw can be found in Mount Hood in Oregon, Zermatt in Switzerland, Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Bariloche in Argentina, Gunung Bromo in Indonesia and Milford Sound in New Zealand. If you’re a budding sketch artist you might want to plan an artsy vacation to visit some of the world’s most famous mountain ranges. In Canada awe-inspiring mountain ranges perfect for an iPad illustration retreat include The Rockies British Columbia and Alberta and Laurentians in Quebec.

One of the best ways to learn how to draw mountains is by lacing up your boots and embarking on a hike to a nearby nature reserve. The seemingly unreachable and other-worldly mystery of these geologic wonders may also be a reason that for many people, capturing them in art seems like a difficult task. And with such remarkable beauty it’s easy to understand why. In many way mountains are a worldy touchstone for people across the globe, crossing cultures as symbols of strength, spirituality, wisdom and awe. Draw Mountains When TravelingĪs any fan of Bob Ross is aware, mountains are a pretty popular subject for drawing or painting. Toronto illustrator Mark Scheibmayr shares tips on how to draw mountains. Creating illustrations of things like majestic, snow-capped mountain ranges with an Apple Pencil on iPad Pro allows for new and advantageous ways of creating layers, texture, and dimension, and is also really quite fun. If you are new to digital drawing I am sure you’ll be amazed, both by how easy it is to pick it up, and by the new range of drawing potential it provides. Over the last few years the digital medium has become an important drawing tool for me and a integral part of my illustration process overall.

I’m a Toronto illustrator who specializes in book illustration, portraiture, editorial illustration and exhibition design.
