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Interiors are hard, that's all I have to say about this one - give me a cloud any day! Still thinking vaguely of Cinderella, thus the figurine on the bookcase and the fragments of sewing things scattered around.

Took a little break for a couple of days... therefore, a fox! practice14-sketchyfox.jpg And then back to the backgrounds - tried for a night scene this time. Overall, I'm alright with it... but it's still too sketchy for a VN background, I suspect. Also, that road, man. Too dark and it looked like t...

Another day, another background... another style. I modeled some hexagons for the floor and roof in blender, but went somewhat off-script pretty much immediately. Still, I kind of like this one - I went super dreamy on everything except the gazebo to try and stop myself from adding too much distract...

I like the changes that you made - I think that the light looks great, and I could definitely see this as a VN background. The one thing that I meant to mention before is that your eyeline slash horizon might be a little low - since the eyes of a character should be at the same place no matter where...

Having spent ungodly amounts of time futzing with my castle on a hill, I think I need a break from that. Thanks, Drew! The futzing was much more productive when I had advice to follow rather than just working on things randomly. :) Two new images since then: A seance that may be too successful - cam...

Hi there! :) When you said that you were also struggling with backgrounds, I had to check out your thread. I love your sketchup interiors - very clean and well-composed! If I do interiors I use blender to get the angles right, which I imagine is similar. I like the more painterly approach on the mos...

Hi! Thanks so much for your feedback, first - it's much appreciated! It's kind of you to assume that the divergences are due to it being referenced, but sadly no - the odd light and terrible angles are all my own, as are the dodgy hills. The castle is following my basic plan for buildings which is c...

And today's background... much sketchier than I want for my eventual style, but I think I pushed it a bit by trying to do buildings plus trees plus fog. Next time, one of these things... or maybe something entirely different. On the plus side, I laid off the unsharp mask and used a different export ...

Ah ha! Upon looking closely at the parts you mentioned on another monitor, it was quite obvious (apparently my monitor is also set to be too dark) - and after rummaging around in the background of my exporter, it was apparently compressing things automatically, no matter how often I turned it back u...

Thanks for the comment - i'm just glad that you can tell what things are, frankly. Captain Obvious is what I need here, along with his friend Major Problems! I hadn't noticed any pixellation, probably because I'm working on a very small monitor most of the time. Not sure if it's an artifact of the e...

Last one of the ones that I've already done! Finished this one early this morning - I'm actually pretty fond of it, creepy as it is, but I feel like it would be more suited for a disney movie or point and click adventure game than for a VN.

A psychedelic ocean! This would be suitable for a VN only if the characters were actually on fire, which is unfortunate. practice4-ocean2.jpg The school roof photo. Somewhere that I personally have never been, but it seemed like it might be a good thing to try. Maybe suitable for a VN if i took out ...

Hi there all, I was originally the programmer for an upcoming novel, but I've now become the background artist as well. This is more than a little terrifying, given that I haven't drawn much for the last five years or so and I was never really all that good at keeping a coherent style in the first p...

@Serenity Frost Thanks! And hey now, not having a need for something doesn't matter - if all you do with it is play with it for an evening or use it to make your characters say inappropriate things, well, then I'll be a happy programmer. :mrgreen: @Sushi-Dreamer Sounds fabulous - I cheerfully encour...

@vividXP Thanks! I'd be really chuffed if people actually got some use out of it, as usually I specialize in making impractical bits of software that I then forget about when distracted by something else. :D (If it does wind up being used, I will definitely put in an export to gif or animated canvas...