Farmer Enjoying The Landscape - Concept Art

I start with the very basic base colours for the piece.

I then paint the black and white tones of the piece as you can see in the image below. I used some brushes to get the texture of the mountains, grass and the ripples in the water. As the mountains get further away I make them lighter in color.

I use a multiply setting on the layer so that it merges with the color layer below like this

I then paint the base colours for a house in the fore ground to make the composition a little more interesting.

I apply the same method to the house aswell. I also an overlay layer with a light yellow color to paint some highlights where the sun touches the house and the mountains.

Create the base colors for this farmer figure.

To finish the piece I add shading and highlights to him as I did with the other parts of the painting and then paint small details such as the birds in the sky.