Real talk on painting Magic: the Gathering lands:

Forest > Mountain > Island > Plains > Swamp

That's my ranking of how easy/good they are to paint. Let me explain:

Forests are easy. Lots of color variety. Cool shapes. Not a lot of difficulty. Trees are the shit.

Mountains are also easy. Paint something kinda rocky and boom--you've got yourself a mountain. Just don't paint too much water and you've got nothing to worry about here.

Islands start to get tricky.

Are you painting an island or just a coastline? That's a tough question.

Generally pretty easy, they're kinda tough because you start to have to paint an ocean and I've always found that difficult.

Plains are really hard.

Having vertical elements in a landscape make it a lot easier to paint. But you can't have too much of that in a plains. Can't have big mountains or forests or anything.

So you're kinda left with... clouds? That's what I usually do, anyway.

Swamps are really, really hard.

Too many roots/trees? Oops it's a forest.

Too much swampy water? Shit it's an island now.

Put a mountain in there for something vertical? Nope.

So yeah, swamps are the hardest. It's official.

Thanks for enjoying my super niche, arbitrary morning musing/rant.

Hey @TitusLunter you should make your own list like this. I'd be curious if we overlap at all.