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What's the best way to go about learning to draw fields in digital? I'm trying to emulate Ghibli's fields in photoshop but nothing comes out looking good.

>> No.7147999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loH2AFtArAA

>> No.7148000

Lack of detail, crooked horizon line, no clouds

>> No.7148021

>>7147997
>crooked horizon line, no clouds
Uneven grounds, and cloudless skies exist.

>> No.7148042
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>>7147997
The best way would be to pull up one of their backgrounds and try to copy it. Right now your picture lacks depth, so it looks like I'm staring at a very close inclined hill. If that's the goal, great job. If not, you can add depth by fixing these things:

1. The color green at the top of your field and at the bottom are the same. As the field gets further away from us, it will get much lighter.
2. You have detail all throughout the field. We should see a lot of detail guiding our eyes in the front, a bit of detail in the middle, and depending on how far you wanna push the field out you can just use completely flat colors in the back. Seeing individual blades of grass on the horizon is bringing it way too close to us.
3. There's not a lot of contrast in the grass shadows. As grass gets closer to us it usually has some pretty deep shadows that appear. You do have a bit of those shadowed blades of grass, I'd push it further. These shadows give you interesting opportunities for appealing shapes.
4. You're building your field with round, puffy hills and blended shadows. These won't really be visible as they get further away. Broad patches of grass will get flatter, and tend to join in triangular shapes. Really pay attention to how small and thin most of the shapes get as they get further away.

You can see all of these things in this picture. Look up more Ghibli pictures to see these things in action, and look up real fields too. Even real fields will have all of these things.

>> No.7148051

>>7147997
pixiv has a nice series of videos on backgrounds
for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKK1t8-3Aow

>> No.7148052
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7148052

Fucked up perspective

>> No.7149216

>>7147997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frJpxvmm_54

>> No.7149293

>>7147997
Digital painting isn't too different in terms of technique, so I'd just recommend watching these videos of the background artists themselves and following along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2q9ZJMaAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZhMGMe3SU

>> No.7150759

>>7148042
>>7148051
>>7149216
Very helpful, thanks!

>> No.7150803

>>7148052
the ground isnt flat you fucking retard. stop giving advice and kill yourself.

>> No.7150897

>>7148052
>>7150803
I assumed it was supposed to be a hill or something.

>> No.7151357

>>7148052
Is he for real.

>> No.7151433

>>7150803
>>7150897
if it was a hill the grass in the distance wouldn't be the same size as the grass near the POV