Week two of Eyes Align: Jumping into the deep end without floaties
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Joining the team was the easy part, now I had to actually produce backgrounds of the quality they expected ( and I expected of myself) quickly. About three backgrounds per week. The first thing I drew was the city street outside Celia Grey’s apartment.
As can be seen, I relied fairly heavily on texture brushes in the beginning, such as the brickwork and some of the metal details. Other than that it was fairly basic: I googled pictures of how a city street looked like to figure out the approximate composition, then I painted it in Krita (a program similar to photoshop.) I started by drawing up the basic shapes, then adding texure, and finally adding color. The picture proved to be too city-like and too similar to a modern city, due to my use of brick and fire ladders mostly. I later made newer (and hopefully improved) versions of it, with the final version looking like this:
I changed the texture on the walls, added some things, and generally just messed around with it until we  |
