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I believe this was my first attempt at drawing a background for something. Yet even as I was doing it, I kept regretting at knowing that it could be better, but not knowing how to.
It is a great reminder that our ability to see, is always steaming ahead of our ability to draw.
It is a great reminder that our ability to see, is always steaming ahead of our ability to draw.
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I relate to that so much. Every new line, I just think how I could curve, sharpen or make it cleaner to look better. But it's more important to just make work, rather than always perfect it. Perfection comes later. Basic composition is what I try to work on first.
I like this piece. If you'd like advice on backgrounds, I'm not expert and I can't do it well myself, but I do know that making the foreground lighter and less shadowed than the foreground due to the lights placement helps create an illusion of distance and dimension.
You got the light placement, IE coming from the left correct with the shadows for the most part. The part I would fix if you can is that in the very back behind the dragons head is a shadowed spot with no explanation. Clouds give some shadow, but not as much as one thinks and there is no serious cloud cover in the 'casted' area to explain the extreme shadow.
One last thing is that shadows are multi level. Where the crevasses are would be the darkest, almost black in some areas and then fade more into the color closest to the lighting. However you might be going for the cell shaded look, in which case since the shadow is one "color" maybe making certain ones further away much darker than the foreground might achieve that affect.
I hope that all made sense.
Anyway, keep going. ^^ I quite like this piece and definitely understand the struggle in art in general when you don't know what you are doing.
I like this piece. If you'd like advice on backgrounds, I'm not expert and I can't do it well myself, but I do know that making the foreground lighter and less shadowed than the foreground due to the lights placement helps create an illusion of distance and dimension.
You got the light placement, IE coming from the left correct with the shadows for the most part. The part I would fix if you can is that in the very back behind the dragons head is a shadowed spot with no explanation. Clouds give some shadow, but not as much as one thinks and there is no serious cloud cover in the 'casted' area to explain the extreme shadow.
One last thing is that shadows are multi level. Where the crevasses are would be the darkest, almost black in some areas and then fade more into the color closest to the lighting. However you might be going for the cell shaded look, in which case since the shadow is one "color" maybe making certain ones further away much darker than the foreground might achieve that affect.
I hope that all made sense.
Anyway, keep going. ^^ I quite like this piece and definitely understand the struggle in art in general when you don't know what you are doing.