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Avoiding Straight Lines When Drawing Backgrounds in Your Compositions

Observe the following rules when you are designing the background to a drawing. Avoid long straight or curved lines without some object breaking into them. They are inartistic and disturbing to the eye. The accompanying sketch illustrates how you can make your backgrounds interesting.

The Right and Wrong Way of Drawing Room Interiors & Backgrounds

I give you here two views of an interior, showing the right and wrong way of grouping your furniture and bric-a-brac, so that parallel lines will not conflict with one another.

Beyond Backgrounds : Making an Environment

Here’s my advice: planning is everything! Figure out your environment in advance, and you’ll have smooth sailing as the illustration progresses. Don’t let your characters dictate the composition, and don’t past in a sloppy last-minute background. Here’s how I work.

Background, Foreground & Midground

Paintings have geographical bearings. We can describe where, within the space of the painting, we want to look. Left or right? Top or bottom? But we also feel, when we view a picture, that some areas of the image are closer to us, and some areas are farther away. A painting creates a three-dimensional pictorial space with perceptible depth.

Drawing Backgrounds for Comics

You’ve seen them a million times, and in many circumstances, they have helped create that perfect touch to the setting within the comics you’re reading. Backgrounds seldom receive much attention, but are vital part of adding depth and mood to your comics. Here’s a few pointers on how to develop the right backgrounds and make your comics more realistic.

Drawing Backgrounds Video Tutorial

How to Draw backgrounds drawing lesson.

Drawing a Room in Single Point Perspective

Look at the room shown below. Furniture has been placed inside it and a colour scheme added. Follow the instructions lower down the page and draw the basic shape of a room - including furniture.

Foreground, Middleground and Background : Layering Elements in Your Landscapes Creates Depth

Although this article is for photographers, it also applies to all artists. Have you ever noticed how some landscape photos look flat? The scenery is beautiful, the light is nice, but the photo itself looks compressed. It's hard to distinguish the different elements in the scene.

How to Draw Backgrounds Objects with an Illusion of Depth

As can be seen in the previous post, (“Miki Falls”) manga creator Mark Crilley in his video (How to draw Manga backgrounds) shows how it can be easy drawing the illusion of depth by defining the fore ground objects with greater detail and colour than the background objects.

How to Draw Simple Room

Learn how to draw a simple room.

How to Paint a Background

A step-by-step demo of how to paint a background for a portrait or still life.

How to Handle Backgrounds in Fantasy Portraits

But what’s the setting? To help you answer that, first make sure you are painting a portrait, and not a figure in a landscape. To understand the difference, take a look at the following two images. The one on the left is a figure in a landscape, and the one on the right is a portrait.

In the Backgrounds : What to Put Behind the Portrait Drawings

When you’re just starting to learn how to draw, backgrounds can be overwhelming and just plain annoying. As you start to develop your techniques, you begin to see the importance of considering what is behind your portrait.

Integrating Background and Foreground Elements in Digital Art

If you think about the background as being as important as the figures, rather than something boring and incidental which you’ve got to add, you’re on the right track already.

Manga / Anime Background Tutorial

Creating your own background for an anime film can be done on illustration board. The subject matter of your background is nearly limitless because anime films take place in nearly every conceivable location imaginable.

Paint Landscape Backgrounds Using the Color Properties!

The color properties that we have learned will be used to paint landscape backgrounds. It is not as hard as you think.

Painting Backgrounds in Watercolors

If you are going to paint a background, then you need to start working on your background early. Don’t wait until until you finish the foreground to start worrying about background.

Thinking inside The Box : Beyond 2 Point Perspective

How do you use 2 point perspective when drawing interiors? Picture yourself standing inside a giant shoe box looking at one of the corners.

Why Still Life Painting Backgrounds Are Important : Still Life Painting Exercise

In their eagerness to paint the objects in his still life painting ar­rangements, students very frequently neglect the back­ground.

Acrylic painting techniques: the importance of the background color

This is one of the acrylic painting techniques you need to master if you want to improve your pictorial ability. It is a very simple principle that can also be applied to other pictorial techniques and that will immediately confer to your paintings more depth.

How to Draw Scenery - Drawing "scenery"--whether a scenic background for a play, dance performance or opera or a rendering of a familiar monument, such as the Grand Canyon or Victoria Falls, to be framed and put on a wall--confronts the artist with two challenges: large-scale composition and the use of perspective.

How to Draw an Interior Room - Whether you want to draw, plan your next new bedroom design or do it for other purposes, creating an interior room is a challenge.

How to Paint a Textured Background That is Ideal For Still Life and Portrait - Painting in backgrounds in landscapes is fairly straightforward. However, when painting still life or portraits the background area is often a cause for concern. Painting in backgrounds is a common problem. This article is about a way to use cheesecloth to give a lightly textured background.

Tip on Pencil Portrait Drawing : Backgrounds - ere are a few tips on how to proceed with backgrounds so that they become a plus for the finished product.

Try Using a Hard Lead Pencil to Draw Distant Landscape Detail - Some artists find it difficult to distinguish background detail from drawing middle-distance and foreground detail.