where do you get your background textures? do you just google images of what you have in mind or is there a specific website you visit? I love the way they make ur art look & might want 2 try it for myself :3
SO most of the stuff i do for backgrounds is already accessible through any art programme! I'll run you though all the methods I use! ^^
With this its more of a papery simple texture to add! I use medibangs pre-set noise. This one is called "marker paper 2" and I usually use it on overlay on top of a colour I already like ^^. Generally anything grainy works but I like this one. I tend to expand it about x2 so you can see the grain of it in the final piece!
This type of grain is actually made with brushes instead of a noise filter! On medibang the brush being used here is called "stipple" and I usually use it on its absolute highest setting.
you might not realise you have a stipple pen in your own programme because usually it just looks like a weird little grainy brush but when its REALLY blown up it helps to add some texture.
Here's what the progress of that method looks like! Usually I'll do this on top of a smooth gradient, with one end I'll add some stipple grain in the lightest colour, and then vice versa with the darkest. By hand, I dot in some bits of light and then add a motion blur effect to the spots! If you use a Luminosity or an Add layer it makes them look like little stars.
For this watercoloury/cloudy look in the backgrounds I use actual images of clouds!
Here's all the transparent clouds I use! I dont remember where I got them all now but I probably just stole them from stock image sites.
I just collage them on top of each other! Then I'll use a "hard light" or "hue" layer to get the background colour that I like. I tend to add a semi transparent layer of colour on top of it to "smooth out" the texture a bit? so that the lights and darks arent so intense. In this example I also added some stars as well to put a bit of grain into it.
You can use some of these examples in conjunction with each other if youre trying to get a certain graininess out of the final piece! I would usually recommend adding a little bit of VERY light texture to your character as well so they dont look unnatural in front of the background! I hope this helps!
