Lanscape Sketching

Here are 3 landscape exercises I did recently. My mission was how to establish value, color, textures and perspective in a couple of different ways. It helped me greatly on how to speed up my painting process and how you can suggest shapes with simple strokes. I might have taken some of them a little farther than I should have, but they served their purpose. I want to do more of these in the future, both speed paintings and fully rendered backgrounds. My inspiration for these exercises were Feng Zhu and Noah Bradley I used photo reference for all three.