#background artwork

Astel, Naturalborn of the Void

"I abandon here my ignorance"

Climbing the steps toward Belurat

Mini Guide - "Construction of backgrounds" I've seen a lot of folks speaking about their struggle with drawing backgrounds in their works, so I whipped up a very quick and rough guide to how I like to approach setting a scene. I think my best advice for folks that struggle with drawing backgrounds would be making sure to treat the background as part of the whole composition, rather than ever just a filler of a space around a character.

How well you draw elements in the background isn't as important as making sure the background is an established piece in the puzzle - it can provide lighting, atmosphere, dramatic heights, contrast…

Sketch out shapes and colors, play with depth and angles & put them together.

“Mangrove paradise”

Practicing with backgrounds! It was so stunning seeing this in person, that I needed to paint it! I love how crystal clear the water was! I did see some fish swim by. None of it felt real.

Let’s play a game!

Comment down below how many leaves do you think are painted!! I’d love to see your guesses!

WIP’s

Working on some background art for Wayward Compass. I'm having to design a new world and I'm really enjoying getting back into illustrative/atmospheric works. Hoping to post more of these in the future. <3 Please come check out my stream I do on Saturdays on PICARTO

And I also have a DISCORD for myself and the talented Anoki, who I stream with.

Got a few more backgrounds up for sale on my ko-fi account!!

Or, if you just want to pay 20 bucks for them, you can leap over to my patreon where I give out these kind of BGs nearly every month! ♥♥