Painting backgrounds UNTIL I GET BETTER AT THEM 🙃

To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at 80000hours.org/pricklyalpaca Thanks to 80000 Hours for sponsoring this video! Pinterest board: pin.it/5P58U4v7l Painting videos: https://youtu.be/pmdc2zQ9jvM?si=CGOPGFT18yS_z5am https://youtu.be/MKtcsF5IUF0?si=tPWYrA1wkBYjQDje https://youtu.be/46wPyZ1LOwM?si=ftlZq19m2K4Jby6j Spiderverse style: https://youtu.be/GON-jgy2Bpc?si=RXZkPMMiqJP-snf2 City brushes: tamberella.gumroad.com/l/YLfEvh?layout=profile Foliage brushes: tamberella.gumroad.com/l/UrGvW?layout=profile

We enjoyed YOUR meal concept! (The meal concept was this awesome video)

Ah the grueling journey of art improvement. Just remember, sucking at something is the first step of being moderately better at something. You're doing great!

"I can't wait to enjoy my meal concept" I love how you're just as Drawfee-pilled as the rest of us, my vocabulary has also been irrevocably damaged by those funky fellas 🤣

1. That last painting is JUICY 2. pricklyalpaca drawfee guest prayer circle

Ah yes my mortal enemy, backgrounds

I can't believe Alpaca spent 80,000 hours painting backgrounds

Even though I've been drawing daily for nearly two years now, I've only recently started regularly drawing backgrounds. By that, I mean make the lower half of the drawing one shade of green and the upper half a different shade of green. And, if I'm feeling particularly creative, I'll add a blue area at the top.

In the tree house I think the mane problem is the lighting, in the sense that the tree house, which is the focal point, has the same dark values as the foreground which makes it all kind of meld together. I think it would be way better if the sunlight that is hitting the middle ground with the kids and the grass was also hitting the tree house, just make it really bright and with those warm tones. Having the tree with lighter values would make it stick out way more compared to the foreground and make it clearer. Another thing is that the colors all around are very similar, which is not necessarily a problem, but here it has the same effect as making the values similar, blends everything together. You definitely included a variety of greens like you said, but when it comes to separating the forest from the tree house I think it would be good to set up a base distinct color palette, for example: if you want to keep the house on the sunlight and make it really warm, try to make the colors of the forest in the foreground very cold, pushing to bluish tones, this will help build contrast. A great thing to remember is that when the sun is giving off a yellowish hue of light the shadows will be purple-ish and blue-ish because its the complementary color, you can notice this in real life, you can use this in your environments to build contrast and make more interesting color palettes. Having variety of hues is great but make sure that you have a reason for that variety, intention is very important in making art great and consistent.

So I went to commercial art school just before computer art took over. One of the arguments against the new tech artists was the lack of their working first in black and white and only then adding color. It was said that tech artists used color to make up for lousy perspective, values, and lighting. And that led to muddy color, etc. So, seeing you begin in gray scale first is heartening. Of course, tech artists have grown since then (i.e., dinasours). Anyway, I enjoyed watching your process. I think you're very talented, and your thirst for learning is actually exciting. Thanx for the journey.

It’s not squarespace I’m confused it’s always squarespace

Words cannot express how encouraging this is for me to continue on my art journey and stop being so intimidated by aspects of design I am unfamiliar with.

One thing that really helps with perspective if you're struggling on buildings is do some studies of weird close up angles of parts of a building. Strange angles looking down stairwells, angle up at some interesting rafters, etc... Even doing a stack of blocks with multiple lights helps a lot. Jumping in on a whole building if something isn't clicking can really block learning the basics of perceptive.

As my good friend Sean says "Keep doing good art, keep doing bad art, 'cause the bad art makes you better at the good art!"

when she said she couldn't wait to enjoy her meal concept my drawfee braincell activated immediately hahaha, in all seriousness the video was really good and a nice display what progressing as an artist also means ! (it's not all pretty characters done in a few hours even if we do love that as well ^^)

i talk about you so much that my friend teases me when i talk about art things "dang did you learn that from Kira?"

You critiquing your works/ setting goals was SO helpful because Im almost in the exact same situations (difficulty with values, breaking stuff down to understand it better, PERSPECTIVE)

your point about the spider-verse cityscapes stuff is so real. i eat up all the spider-verse backgrounds, fork and knife, they are all stunning, and your backgrounds were beautiful and a very good dessert for the evening! <3

BABE WAKE UP ALPACA POSTED!!!

That spiderverse piece 👌 plus you add a cat to anything i will automatically love it. I don't do digital art and really enjoy hearing you learning and pushing your skills further