Backgrounds and Settings

[Candy519]

If anybody has any tips on creating backgrounds it would be greatly appreciated. I don't feel like I'm improving when I am just drawing my characters in empty space. Also, if anyone could reccomend books on perspective and the like, that would be great. Keep in mind, I am a beginner!

[Leopoldo]

Close your eyes, meditate, pencil in hand and go there in your minds eye.

Turn off the phone, close the door and take a trip into imagination.

Now draw what you see in your minds eye, just like you would do if you where drawing something real. See it, "feel" it, be it.

Sounds corny, I know, but it works for me.

Perspective is simply an illusion of lines and curves.
There are too many books out there (just check out amazon.com and search for "perspective" under books). All of them are more or less the same.

On another note of drawing is the idea of abstractions. Study other peoples ways of abstracting things (trees, grass, people etc) and you'll find ways to abstract things on your own. Again, it's "simply" an illusion of shape, harmony, balance, rythm, composition, lines, shades, hues, saturation, contrast and ideas.

The trick is to bring them all together in a commercial way... and sell it to the highest bidder.

Hope this helped,
Leopoldo

www.fabpics.com/leo

[Candy519]

Thanks alot! I'll try that! Although it will take tons of practice ^_^

[Pencil Soldier]

The trick is to bring them all together in a commercial way... and sell it to the highest bidder.

:D

I find that funny for some reason. :p

[Trickster]

why don't you have a landscape reference book or pictures from the net?? and experiment from the images you have?!