#learninghow to draw

[smoothseek]

Day 3 of Learninghow to Draw

[howthefukareyallsogoodatart]

Some of my first attempts at drawling. My friend got me into a podcast called Just Roll With it. She was drawing some of the characters and inspired me to try to draw too. This is my attempt at a character named Cab and my own character Demphi. 

[ekinoksin]

Your art is so gorgeous!The backgrounds are absolutely stunning!There is any advice you may give on where to start drawing backgrounds?I've always wanted to give it a try,however,I don't know where and how to start. Anyway,sorry for bothering you,keep doing this magnificent job!You have so much talent.

First of all, thank you for your kind words! They are appreciated!

I’m not sure if I can be helpful, if I have to be honest. I don’t know much about techniques and its still out of my comfort zone. while the things I listed below are not solid advises, they are still the things I use, so, I hope its good enough.

(But first, let me apologize for my horrible English. I didn’t proofread it and wrote this in 20 minutes. Not that my English is any better in any other time but still-)

1) While I’m aware some people rather work on the figures and background of their drawing separately, I personally prefer working on them as a whole.

These two elements are the backbone of the fundamental composition,and visually connected. Developing them together as I work balances the piecein a way. After focusing on one part, you tend to force yourself to make theother element to fit to that part- especially in terms of colour. For me, itreally contorts my workflow and at the end it looks like I photoshopped thefigures awkwardly in front of the background- which mostly is not what Iaim. So yeah, collaterally working on both of them is what I usually do tohave some more control over the relation between the figure and the background.

2) Breaking down the background into segments not only helpsyou vision the placement of the objects you put in your piece but also letsyou think more about the colour perspective. As the object gets further, the colour of it seems paler. Separating the piece to as fore-middle-back ground gives that freedom play with the tonal volumes.

As an addition to this, I also use ‘Curves’, a tool that Photoshop offers. It basically lets you arrange the tonal range of your workon a curve.

If you use Photoshop, I highly recommend you giving it a try if you haven’t before!

3) Especially for the compositions that has a background of any architectural sites- learning the principles of the simpler structures hasa great advantage. I mean, yes, using reference is always helpful, but learninghow a fundamental structure stands lets you play around withit and not stuck with the reference. I found some of my old studies, as an example of a simple architectural structure:

The point of them is not to learn every detail of an over-complex building. The point is understanding the shapes and structures of the primary parts and building on top of those inthe works you use them.

Sorry this is all I have, I wish I could have been more helpful. But either way I hope at least these made some sense asgdjka-