Meet your instructor, professional illustrator and graphic novel artist Greg Houston. You'll gain insight into the techniques you'll learn over the course of this class before tapping into your creative side as you begin to look for inspiration in new places.

Bring your first imagined landscape to life as you sketch out the elements with Houston's help along the way. Consider the formatting of your work and the placement of each element as you create a drawing that you'll use as a springboard for your painting.

Begin to explore your landscape in color as you lay in an underpainting for a warm-toned landscape. Houston explains everything you need to know, including how to tape a canvas, what colors to consider and how refined (or unrefined) your underpainting can be. You'll also explore increasingly more complex compositional choices and start developing the play of light and shadow in your piece.