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Background advice and critique

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:48 am
by uselessp
Well, ladies and gentlemen. It's been a long time ever since I'm here, and I'm truly happy I finally got holiday of my hellish first term of high school (Society is hard as always :lol: ). Now that end of year's holiday came, I can use all of my times resuming my project!

But before that, I would like to ask some questions about scenery background (Not furniture, but nature).
First: Just how detailed is today's vn's background? I don't understand the idea of details and real quite much.
Second: Are the number of shades related with the details? If so, teach me how to do multiple shades please.
Third: How much is the angle of a suitable image of background? In other words, the best point of view is from?

I guess that's it? Now that the questions unfolded, I present to you all several of my works.
By the way, these are set to be in fantasy world. Please do forgive my crazy imagination and skills.
field_01.jpg
waste.jpg
Sky.jpg
For my improvement and selfishness, I wish to ask for your opinion. And to make them more real, please do tell me how. I intended to use the improved versions for my projects, and it'll be a good experience. And of course, these are free to use.

As usual, the last will be apologize for my bad English. And have a good evening, everyone!! Nice to see you all again!!!

Re: Background advice and critique

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:21 pm
by MaiMai
I think your backgrounds look nice, if a bit too blurry. Like you said you need details and by detail, I mean you should refine the edges of your objects so that the lines are sharper. Not too sharp though, you don't want a pixelly image.

I also think you should improve the colors. In the first image of grassy field, the grass is too cool in its hue. There should be more yellow-green in the grass. I did a quick edit to show you what I mean. The second image is fine, I like the dusty, dark gray colors since it really evokes the feeling of nighttime in a sandy environment.

I think you would benefit from looking up actual VN backgrounds and you can get a taste of them by skimming through vndb.org

Re: Background advice and critique

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:55 pm
by Taleweaver
I've moved this thread to Personal Art, because this is where it belongs.