Background Practice #1:
Wanna Be (Kinda) Like Moebius
Ahh, backgrounds. Truly the bane of my artistic existence...Well, besides colors and perspective and anatomy. Y'know what, you get my point! I struggle with making backgrounds. I have to exert so much more effort mentally and like artistically to make something that is something I like! You have to take account that it looks good with the foreground character but also not too overbearing, but also not too bland as a background can help make or break an illustration! Ahhh! It's so overwhelming, that's why I simply resort to plain or gradient backgrounds!
I've been studying Moebius and other artists like DeathBurger, Plastic Pen, and Jake Wyatt, and I am looking for reasons why their backgrounds look so good. I've been mentally taking note on what I like and what I don't like, why also making it seem more like me. Anyway, enough with me blabbering. So here is my first set of backgrounds! Enjoy!
CRYSTALS. Not gonna lie, super proud with how this looked like. I love the simplicity of it, and the colors are very pleasing to me. I can't believe I made this! Ahh! But, taking note that the shadows are weirdly placed, so I have to fix that.
SUN. I personally love the left side of this one but the right side is mehhh. I just realized how weird the elevated ground is on the right, mostly because what-its-called where the corner/lines overlap in a non-pleasing manner.
MOUNTAINS. I have to pat myself in the back because the colors are beautiful! But, the composition ehhhhh. I feel like the problem mostly stems on the fact that I wasn't able to "sell" the idea that the darker purple area on the bottom is supposed to be in the foreground, while the lighter pink-colored area is supposed to be farther away.
CLOUDS. Okay, the CRYSTALS one is definitely my fave but this is a close second for me. I love how I made it look so calming to look at. What troubles me is that I failed to make Moebius' clouds that are in the middle of "jaggedy but also rounded".
So there's that! Hopefully that wasn't too underwhelming! Okay, enough self-deprecation. I have learned a lot from making this, and I'll probably make this into a series of some sort. Anyway, have a good day!