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Old 6th March 2013, 08:13     #10
Baxton
 
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Colour theory will fix your mind block in regards to the colours, you'll find out what colour complements the other, what tones of the same colour you can use for foreground and backgrounds, it's pretty boring stuff but it's unfortunately what you'll need to know if you want to really pick up what to use in foregrounds and backgrounds. For example that seems like a desert scene, you could use harsh reds and yellows for the dustburnt wood and harsh sun, and then you could contrast that with some pastel blues in the shadows to give it some depth and give the shade a feeling of respite.
You are so right. From the moment I picked up some colours to try a background I have been really aware that I don't know what colours go together. How did you learn this?

I have moved to using varying pen thickness's in other pictures but I have found they still seem flat to me due to the colours

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With regards to perspective; Another thing I notice is the lack of focal point, the perspective looks like it would end in many areas, rather than just a few focal points. That would make the background look closer than you would desire too. So studying focal points and starting with a few, or even one focal point to get a perspective of where buildings and landscapes would be in proportion to everything else would help you too, I think.
atm I am googling stock photos for my backgrounds. do people normally just pull them out of their mind meats?

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Finally life art studies, probably not something you're interested in at all. But if you really want to progress into making very animated and personable cartoons, the background in understanding anatomy, bone structure, muscle movement and everything else will benefit you more than you think.
actually this is something I had considered doing, However I had thought my weakness was in not understanding colours and perspective when I posted this. Do you think my characterisation could be vastly improved but going to some life study sessions? I have been dabbling in drawing for ages but have never done any formal lessons (never did art at highschool).

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Anyway, hope this helps - sorry, I don't really do TL;DRs D: If you have any other questions I'm happy to help, or bust out the wacom and give you examples etc
so helpful. Seriously. You have put a voice to the murmuring noise in the back of my head.
Main question is what is the best approach to improve on these areas (or learn them outright ) My goal is not to be a professional artist or nuffing but I intend to be drawing for the rest of my life and since I started trying up my game and draw whole images have been fairly unhappy at where my ability is sitting.
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