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Well, I (as well as some others I have seen around the forums) love making sprites but hate backgrounds. But I am determined to get through this and learn how to draw backgrounds well! In drawing the human body and using perspective, I was told to think of boxes (for shading too actually.) But I have always been horrible at boxes. But I'm trying anyway!

This is a very very basic test background I'm working on (my first time on real dramatic perspective OR backgrounds, so it needs a lot of work) and it happens to involve real boxes. For the scene, it is supposed to show someone on the ground, looking up at this huge stack of boxes in their attic. It is an over dramaticized (sp?) stack with way more boxes stacked way taller than (I hope) anyone would actually manage.

I drew a line in the center first to try to tell myself how i wanted the picture. I want this at a tilted angle on top of looking up. The top of the building is actually the top left corner and the line from the top left to the bottom right is supposed to demonstrate that. And then I built the boxes around that, and a mirror to the left, and some kind of round ball thing on the right.

I am going to draw in the person lying on the floor looking up in the bottom right corner in that empty floor space.

Could anyone assist me in beating up this image and making it right? HIYAH!

For a view like this it would be good to set up some 3 point perspective guidelines to help make everything look 'right'. You'll want to probably start by drawing all of the objects out as boxes (even though most of them are supposed to boxes already!) and get the perspective and proportion down before you start. It might also be good to start drawing the picture in a straight up and down view just to make it easier to get things right and then tilting it.

Good luck with the background!