Definitely useful, and will come in handy when it's about drawing them sometime!

wewt.

Just curious - are you working from a 3D render? It's neat to see how you build the mountains forward like that - but what about the set you're working from already? I am guessing you pretty much work from a limited color palette to create the hazy effect and use specific brushes to get the snowy effect?

Its just photoshop...I start with a white canvas. This could be used to do mountains in traditional media too, but there is less room for mistake.

great tutorial! especially picking from the sky for shadows. that hadn't occurred to me to do. I'd also love to see what you do before the first picture shown here ;) I'm just curious like that. the first pic looks like a render at first glance!

Very nice, I always enjoy tutorials!

Al Dawson used to have a website exhibiting his artwork, what he called 'digitoils', created using Paint Shop Pro. He put up two tutorials, the first of which is still available on the Net at http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/pays/paintshoppro/peinture/howdo_a.html; the tutorial is a step-by step walkthrough showing how to recreate one of his pieces, which includes a mountain in the background; the technique is an interesting contrast to what you illustrate.