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I need some advice for drawing scenery and landscapes. One of the things about my art I want to improve on is to draw at least half-decent backgrounds. I also want to help worldbuild my original works, and I feel that learning to draw scenery would be beneficial to help immerse myself in the story more. Do any artists here have advice? I appreciate any help that y'all have.Jan 5, 2021
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I’m bad at bkgds too and I really don’t have any tips but I just wanna say happy birthday!
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Some tips I have are
1. Try doing backgrounds in layers, depending on how far back you can see, this tends to help when giving the perception of depth.
2. In the day/night, the further back something is, the more it blends with the sky, depending on how far away it is from the layer Infront of if . For example if you're doing a bunch of bright green hills and a pale blue sky, each layer of hills after the first one should lose a bit if it's saturation and if you go far back enough, the hue should change to blue.
2.b. The exception to this is mainly when the light source is behind the objects, for example, the sun in a sunrise or sunset. Dependant on how low the sun is in the sky compared to the object, the object is darkened and it's silhouette is lined in light where the sun would hit the other side.
3. If doing something like a room or inside of something, it's best to draw a layout of the place without any items, using lines of perspective. Then using thoes lines to determine how things like windows and the other objects would look in the room.
4. How outside looks is very dependant on the time of day and even the season at times. If it is afternoon, the closer it is to sunset everything would have a slight yellow light, going onto a slight orange light, and finally a dark orange. When the sun has set but it's not night yet, everything has a darkish blue light to it. At night, it is a very dark blue or black light, and it lightens if the moon is out.
5. A lot of practice, its good to look at references to see how it looks. For example if you are doing a room, you can take a picture of the angle of the room you want to capture and then use that as a reference. Or googling how certain landscapes look at different time of the day. Also finding a way of drawing it that suits your art style and that you are comfortable with may take time
That's all I can think of currently. I hope it helps.
1. Try doing backgrounds in layers, depending on how far back you can see, this tends to help when giving the perception of depth.
2. In the day/night, the further back something is, the more it blends with the sky, depending on how far away it is from the layer Infront of if . For example if you're doing a bunch of bright green hills and a pale blue sky, each layer of hills after the first one should lose a bit if it's saturation and if you go far back enough, the hue should change to blue.
2.b. The exception to this is mainly when the light source is behind the objects, for example, the sun in a sunrise or sunset. Dependant on how low the sun is in the sky compared to the object, the object is darkened and it's silhouette is lined in light where the sun would hit the other side.
3. If doing something like a room or inside of something, it's best to draw a layout of the place without any items, using lines of perspective. Then using thoes lines to determine how things like windows and the other objects would look in the room.
4. How outside looks is very dependant on the time of day and even the season at times. If it is afternoon, the closer it is to sunset everything would have a slight yellow light, going onto a slight orange light, and finally a dark orange. When the sun has set but it's not night yet, everything has a darkish blue light to it. At night, it is a very dark blue or black light, and it lightens if the moon is out.
5. A lot of practice, its good to look at references to see how it looks. For example if you are doing a room, you can take a picture of the angle of the room you want to capture and then use that as a reference. Or googling how certain landscapes look at different time of the day. Also finding a way of drawing it that suits your art style and that you are comfortable with may take time
That's all I can think of currently. I hope it helps.
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You can always practice your eyes and hand by drawing over some screenshots. Watch some movies or tv series and take screenshot of a scene that you really like. Draw main elements of it and learn why they are appealing to eyes. :) it's easy and funny practice that can help later to put things on right places in paintings and drawings.
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