Now, the first step is to open up Photoshop.  If you do not know how to open Photoshop by this point, I would like you to go find the nearest wall and bang your head against it vigorously. 

Now that you have come back, you have to choose your background to place the mountains on.  Here, I created a 400 by 400 canvas and painted it blue.

Next, you must find a good brush.  The one I used is a slanted rectangular splotchy brush.  The specifics don't matter, but try to get it about like the one in the picture.  (If you are using less than 7.0, you may have to load the brush.  Do this by clicking on the little arrow in the brushes menu, and clicking on Load Brushes, then search in your Photoshop program file, and go into the folder titled Goodies, and load the brush files.

Secondly, we draw little pyramids.  Create a new layer to put this on!  Remember, imperfection is the key, as long as it doesn't go out of physical boundaries.  Some mountains have big chunks taken out of them near the peak and other things.  I'd recommend looking at a few pictures of mountains, and notice how they are strangely formed-- yet not too strangely.

As for the color, it really depends on what kind of mountain you are drawing.  If it's a snow filled mountain like the one I am doing here, it should be a dark gray.  Maybe it's a brown mountain?  Or if it's a foresty mountain, it may be green, however I don't cover how to make tree-esque shapes here.

If you are creating a snowcapped mountain, then follow step three and four.  Otherwise, you may skip these...  but you probably want to read what they say anyhow.

Select the white color, and then go to the brush type.  Find a brush which has splotchy effects like the one my mouse is over.  (These may not be in programs less than 7.0, I haven't checked.  If that's the case, it's not hard at all to improvise in the next step.)

Lock your mountain layer.  (Note:  select the layer, and click on the checker board looking box in the layers menu.)

Now, using your splotchy brush, randomly put snow on the peak and drag it down.  It may look a bit weird now, but don't let that get to you.

Now do a quick shading. 

I used the burn tool with a blurred brush at about 30 size in Highlights mode.

Remember that some mountains are overlapping the others and should be shaded as though you were drawing a line over it.  Also, don't just shade it as though it were a pyramid...  put a few lines though the middle of the mountain to make it look less perfect.

Also, use the dodge tool (In Shadow Mode) oppositely to the burn.

Now, take the blur tool (at normal mode in 50% strength), and get rid of those odd-looking dots that still made it through the process.  Hmm, looks a bit too blurry, right?

Well, then dodge and burn it some more.  This gives the drawing a much sharper feel to it, plus adds some extra detail.  I used a variety of brushes from large to small-- in some of them, I overlapped a few times, while in others, I brought down the exposure to a very small number. 

Touch up anything that looks odd.

In the example, I should have touched on the gray a lot more, but I did that all in 10 minutes.  I didn't really fix that, but I should have.

Well, I hope you may be able to improve on my technique quite a bit.  Remember-- a little bit of practice never hurts before actually doing this to a picture; you may murder it.  o_O  ...but, I'll let you do whatever you want to your drawings.

Those mountains wouldn't look so happy without you.

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