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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi
I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
Bovigender (click flag for more info!)
Probably this one.
To a lesser extent, its parallel universe version (the sense of distance/perspective in the lake's back coastline got completely lost)
Also included some ones I still like.
First two are original-enough. Then the other is MarioKart inspired, and the other is Freedom Planet 2 inspired.
I'm planning to practice backgrounds, and my biggest issue is that I actually really struggling to choose correct tools/brushes for stuff. I tend to use only one brush that I currently use for lines and hard light shading, but it's really not a good fit for coloring lineless backgrounds. Do you know of any literature that I can read on that (coloring/shading/painting) to get any idea or nah? Or is that all self-taught for you?
I am not entirely self-taught. I watch a lot of Bob Ross videos and mimic his techniques. You do not want to ink your backgrounds, imo. If you must ink your backgrounds, simplify as much as possible. Even if the only subject in the landscape, is the landscape, you should be picking a focal point anyway to pour more attention into, and leave the rest of the image sketchy.
Look at actual paintings, and especially look at them closely. You'll often find massive portions of the masterwork landscape containing very low detail elements. You need to hammer into your mind that everything comes together in the image, and that fine details are rarely necessary.
As for brushes. I dunno! Usually the most difficult thing for me is picking the "correct" color that fits the atmosphere and lighting of the scene as a whole, but as soon as find those "correct" colors, it feels more like a coloring book with a thousand steps. It's completely normal to spend several hours completing a landscape painting, especially in the early learning processes.
Eyedropping from a photo is fine, but also try to eyeball those colors and select manually as well.
Always use references. Always. Always. Landscape artists were staring at the landscape to paint it, afterall. They were using.. an irl reference... so use references! Or else you will suffer in ignorance for the rest of your life.
As for "brushes" I wouldn't worry too deeply about brushes. But do watch Bob Ross and how he paints. You'll notice that he will lay down hard blocks of color on top of a gradient. He will often blend colors by pushing them into other colors, but he isn't blending them into a smooth blur. Just enough to describe the shape of the object.
Oftentimes, a single flat color is all you need to describe an object, but if it's not fitting the context of the atmosphere, the general lighting of the scene, or other contextual elements (fog) (smoke etc)
Then there will be revision and exploration of that problem...
So.. It's a lot of copying references by eye. A lot of that. Hours and hours of that. Entire afternoons that melt into evenings.
And above all else: I am not a tutor, I am not a teacher. I think in very direct terms and I deeply believe that the best way to learn is to learn by doing, while cruising through youtube for art videos, or consulting things like this: http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm Which is a crash course.
USE REFERENCES.
Yeah, that seems fair. I'll go with referencing normal stuff for now.
these backgrounds are always some of the coolest parts of your art, not to say the rest isn't just as cool hah. I suppose it's easy as an artist to pay little mind to the background on a piece that's largely meant to draw the eyes to the huge titties or massive cocks, so to see these done with so much care in your stuff is more than welcome.
they're just so damn pretty and interesting, the work you put into them is really admirable and it helps to make every set of images stand out a lot.
Personally, I think my favorite might be the oil ocean you did for one of the older Tails pics, though I don't know if that one had a full background image without the character. I might've asked about it at some point.
