I enjoy drawing cityscapes a lot more than natural ones, despite my having literally never posted a single one in all my years of being here lol. Meanwhile, we have a very large number of failed backgrounds depicting nature. Well, now you know a meaningless fact about my preferences that you'll never use :) I wanted to practice backgrounds, values, and perspective, so what better way to do that than to draw a background with values and perspective? I used my big brain thinking skills on this one. I tried out a few different things than I normally do. First, I only used 2 brushes- an outline brush and my normal rendering brush. No 36,000,000 custom brushes for me. (Aw, man!) Second, I didn't worry about the colors at all and focused on differentiating my values. Third, I tried to give the background as much depth as possible. A lot of my backgrounds look flat, so I remedied this by using a radial ruler and by making the values lighter the farther away from the viewer they're supposed to be. I've seen people use techniques where they do a greyscale drawing like this and then use the overlay/color blending mode to give their backgrounds color while keeping their values, and it sounds pretty cool! I might do that the next time I draw a background that needs color because this was so easy and fast- it took me under 1.5 hours, which is very impressive for me lmao. I don't think I'll color this background in because I like how it looks and don't want to risk ruining it. So yeah! Flyway made a background that doesn't suck! Impressive, huh? Buh bye :) Credits: Me, @flyway for the art Me, @flyway for the description @colorsnatch for the zoom in code You, for somehow managing to read through this entire description without dying of boredom :D Here's your extra special gold star. ⭐ Good job, my dude :) Please don't steal my art *pleading emoji*
