Backgrounds...

[Dre]

As an artist, I'm always looking for ways to better myself. One of the biggest challenges I have at the moment is creating a more authentic background setting for my art and games. This ranges from cityscapes to landscapes, pretty much all background situations. Where drawing the substantive background isn't hard, coloring them to match the subject, or coloring them to look more natural is a real pain and I almost always fail at this.

So my reason for creating this post is to ask other artists for some tips, pointer, links, tutors, whatever that can help me in this department because I really could use the help!

Thanks in advance.

[lordcloudx]

sketch your background then just multiply that layer and create another layer underneath in photoshop then just be creative with color. Airbrush then erase some parts and use dodge, burn etc.

like in this tutorial unless you already know about this.
http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorial ... orial.html

I often skip the inking with the pen tool part though. but if you're not lazy about it. You can use the pen tool to create cg near the quality of professional bishoujo games.

[Dre]

Thanks for the link, even though I've seen this before, this led to several other artist locations ultimately inspiring me to draw more consistently. So thanks for that too! lol If anyone else have anything they can share that would be nice.