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tbh i changed the perspective after i did the clouds so they look a tad wonky. x;
I told myself i was going to keep that perspective but then i lied to myself.
As for the layered grass, yes i did. I was kind of shooting for a more water color feel mainly because i was more concerned about color and shading over what it actually looked like. You are absolutely right though if i were to ever continue it i would do it in one layer.
And yeah the tree leaves do look my clouds its awful x;


Thanks. Yeah i kind of do that i need to work on zooming out of my picture more.
One day if i get really good i promise to redo that one and the tree island one because i never added a bridge for xmo x;


I paint using photoshop. Everything i do that i post on here is digitally done no scanning. That being said, I do draw traditionally a lot and that is mainly where i work on techniques like anatomy and perspective a bit more. Its easier to learn that kind of stuff on paper imo and then apply that to a digitalscape. I posted all my steps for that tree image a while back idk if that would help. I wouldn't ind doing a tut or something but it would definitely be later and not now. I gotta actually get good first.
The best thing I can recommend for you as an artist is to go to the store right now and buy a sketch book and a pack of good pens. Then read this: http://fineart.sk/photo-references/andrew-...s-anatomy-books
one of those books are on perspective. I would really consider reading them and doing all the exercise even if they look like shit. Everything you draw that is new to you looks like crap. Its the repetition of doing the same object and correcting yourself when something looks incorrect that is the base of a good artist. Everytime i try something new, it looks awful. But as long as you are willing to use the right techniques and guides, you can only get better. Its when you cut corners that you become an unsuccessful artist. Learning realistic technique is 100% necessary. Yes you become successful not learning realism but you still aren't a successful artist. When you start basing your overall anatomy on something like anime you are basically castrating yourself as an artist. You will start basing everything you draw in that style and you wont be able to draw anything else other than what falls in the category without having a difficult time. You want to draw a forest?! Nope you cant because all you did for the last year was draw anime girls! You want to draw a realistic women!? Nope you cant because all you did was draw anime girls! As a new artist, style is the last thing you need to be worried about.
So please if you read this and take one piece of advice, please study realism right now. Please take the time to check out those books and do those exercises. They will make you a better, more versatile artist capable of drawing anything and everything. Things like painting are something you cant really achieve without the proper mentality and technique. Perspective first, coloring later.
Being an artist is hard. You fail a lot more than you succeed. But that is the base of every good artist imo. It takes 100 bad pieces to make one good piece. By learning and evolving from failure is what makes your successful. I myself am not a successful artist but i strive to be one and i believe this is the best way to become a well-rounded artist capable of more than just fanboyism.

Wow, exactly; I totally agree with u.
Art is definitely about evolving, and even when you are "good", you always feel you can be better.
People spend years practising something over and over, and a lot of times you don't even really notice the stuff behind the scenes, or how many hours someone spent. Apparently it takes 10 000 hours to master a craft.

What you also said reminds me a lot of when I was a kid and hated to draw hands, lol. Or same with guys.

... I'd always draw a girl with her hands behind her back.... (>D<) (^D^)

After realizing the truth about pursuing a career in art, I cannot agree anymore fully with bacon. Anime is, at its roots, a stylized realism. Get a good grasp on the fundamentals, and you can play with them as you wish. You can't, and will eventually hit a ditch if you do, draw without proper knowledge of life. When you finally do understand the way the muscles on the face work and where they are located, you can make that cartoonish wide-eyed jaw-drop expression all the more easier than looking at a reference from another cartoon.

If you don't have the patience nor desire to understand how and why things work or move the way they do, you're just wasting your time if you're trying to improve at drawing.

Great attempt at the speed paint though, I think I actually see the sky, a red tinted plane with angry clouds, like something off the twilight zone. But perhaps if the color of light is tinted red, shouldn't the environment reflect that due to how light reflects off of everything? I think that's why your picture looks a bit unnatural.

Also, I suggest looking into Non-Photographic Blue pencils if you're interested. They're really great for doing underlying sketches when practicing or drawing something, don't smudge like a 2H, are very light and are non-existent if you scan them so smooth line art can be achieved by using them if you don't want to vector.

Keep up the great work bacon!

mixing out some colors
thought id pop something up here~

EDIT:

bonus picture

Just an update. Still a mockup. Laturn is too dark.

This looks amazing. I hope this art-style translates into whatever game you are making.

I expected bacon art. I was deceived.

Thanks ratty. Yeah hopefully it all comes together. The blocks are actually part of the tileset, Im still working on assets and props.

Scriptless:

Started working on my BG for that game.


Its still kind of rough. ANY advice would be most appreciated.


here is a mockup with the current tiles.

THANK YOU. This is what I was looking for. <3

taking forever. The right trees are just a rotated flipped of the other side so I still have to do them. :/
some of the trees look too rocky so I might go over them
help appreciated

It's a little obvious that it's duplicated, as you mentioned, lol. Of course I'm sure you'll work on that bit.

I did notice something odd though, in the bottom-right of the image (before the duplicated wall of trees) there appears to be a large middle finger sticking out of a round-ish object.
Maybe it isn't meant as that, but this is like looking at clouds, I could be seeing something completely wrong. XD

I see that as well, lol. It's coming along great though!

haha the middle finger in unintentional
thanks for your guy's comments!

stopped working on. Decided the perspective wasnt working too well.

Current thing im working on. I need to get past not completing things. ):

Ill prob post more stuff later

WIP
it supposed to be a platformer concept
the foreground has the black outline. It would scroll faster than the background.

Man, that's boss! That's amazing, I can barely do backgrounds/landscapes if I life depended on it and here you are cell shading like a mad boss. Jesus. Keep it up bro, that's great stuff right there, especially your newest ones. I really like the colors you chose to use and shade with

I'm using this for my desktop background. Hope you don't 'mind. =]

thank you guys. Sorry i didnt check and update this sooner!

lady

playing with color

i drew all the grass. Maybe ill finish this!