[Day Of Silence]

This is me trying to draw a horse.

The horse in the picture is Royal Pain (Skunk) owned by Katie Cat.

[BlueEyedKite]

I like this! I think you did a good job on the grass c: I always have trouble with the background myself.

[Day Of Silence]

Thanks!
Yeah, I used to find it really hard with the backgrounds.

[BlueEyedKite]

Do you have any tips on less crappy backgrounds? haha.I need em.

[Day Of Silence]

Do you have any tips on less crappy backgrounds? haha.I need em.

Sure!
So I can't do backgrounds on one layer, I actually use about twelve sometimes ( depending on what kind of background). For example take the picture of the horse. One layer for the colours in the back, another over top for the trees (pretty much lines with little stumpy things), next layer would just be the grass (lots and lots of dots), then leaves (I drew four leaves and just kept duplicating and moving them). The horse was pretty much the top most layer, except I put a few leaves over top.
And if I had a rock in there or something, it would have had it's own layer.

Lots of layers I find help, and you can always merge them at any point.

For grass I start by using a layer and just using a solid green for the whole area of grass. Then I lower the opacity (% depends on the shade of the colour) and put scattering and spacing pretty much to full %. The brush size should be about size 1 or 3, and pick a different shade of green from the colour you have as the base.
Use lock alpha and do a ton of dots all over, and if you are doing a long stretch of grass, do the closest or farthest darker or light, it helps with the look of distance.
For dirt I use the same technique just in brown.

I can't draw trees, all I can do are trunks and then do some dotting at the top.

For rocks you can do the dotting, but I find it much easier to just do a grey rock and use the airbrush with black/white.

That's all I can think of currently, and i'm terribly sorry if this is just a huge pile of none sensical words, because I am pretty good at that.

[P0CKETKNIFE]

He looks amazing! Thank you so much! <33

[Day Of Silence]

He looks amazing! Thank you so much! <33

Thanks!
Glad you like it!

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