[~HєуRєι~]

i rarely ever do backgrounds and greatly struggle with doing texture without making my life a struggle so i thought i would try some different techniques. I'll come back and do some more later but its important to note that these are with heavy inspiration from and using tips from the CS user qwertyo! please give them and their tips some love <3

[Crazyclaww]

oh wow these turned out great
funny you mention qwertyo, seeing her stuff always makes me want to practice backgrounds!

[~HєуRєι~]

tyyy!! these have been to challenge me against blending and focusing doing far too much detail but also working with different textures because i do not mess with those that much lmao.

An online buddy recommended her guides and studies which I've seen before!! They're truly so fantastic.

[Crazyclaww]

tyyy!! these have been to challenge me against blending and focusing doing far too much detail but also working with different textures because i do not mess with those that much lmao.

An online buddy recommended her guides and studies which I've seen before!! They're truly so fantastic.

the confidence in your rendering shines through super well, makes me think I should check out those guides myself >:]

[~HєуRєι~]

aa thank you!! Its the trick of trying to make sure im not putting too much detail where its not supposed to be, and getting used to textures im not used to yet!! Absolutely check out the studies they can be super helpful! There isnt any specifically on sand/dirt and tree bark as far as im aware but those are pretty easy to do when you can tell the direction the bark is going.

[COOLDOGOOO]

omg i seriously love this so much, I struggle with grass so much because I do everything with a trackpad ;w; and for the rocks, how do you decide where the cracks are? and the pebble-like texture looks insanely good, and the trees, esp the oak, look stunning <33

do you have any tricks you could tell me, by any chance?

[~HєуRєι~]

Track pads are truly difficult! I've only ever used them a handful of times unfortunately so I'm not sure if I have too many tips but hopefully these help!

I think the main struggle with trackpads may be wearing out the energy to do that much detail? I think blending mixed with larger patches of color like seen here may help, with texture only being on the sides. You could even get away with less texture by blending some bits in and the farther away it gets the less texture you have to put in. Alternatively you could see if layering scribbles helps, different pen sizes etc.

With rocks it's mostly to break up any large smooth blank space on them as I layer it he colors. Rock looking too smooth? Add a slightly darker/lighter color than the color that area is and put more breaks in the surface.

The techniques here that I was using was a lot of layering and getting colors to nicely transition into each other without blending, but I use blending more in most of my serious backgrounds to create less work in layering and get them to be able to be contrasted against any characters or bases that have clean line work.

Most importantly if you're doing a piece, do not make yourself do what's behind the character/s you're adding to the piece, it's not worth the effort to put work where no one will see it. Can't get away with that for species bases though.

And ofc practice over and over again anything you're not confident with!

[khenney]

Honestly same! I should probably do a practice go as well