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Lifestyle Arts & Crafts Drawing

How to Draw and Color Backgrounds plus Composition

Draw and color amazing backgrounds for your comics, concept art, and more. Plus learn composition
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (250 ratings)
3,650 students
Created by Neil Fontaine
Last updated 1/2016
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • Draw backgrounds that have correct perspective and light and shadow.
  • Paint backgrounds with proper colors and tone.
  • Draw awesome backgrounds for their comics

Requirements

  • You need to know the basics of drawing.
  • You will need to download the free Google Sketchup

Description

Welcome to How to Draw and Paint Backgrounds. I'm excited you're taking this course because you're a creative artist that wants awesome looking backgrounds. You're the reason I created this course and because many of my students requested it.

Beginner and established artists requested it.

If you're a beginner, you will learn step-by-step to draw and paint awesome backgrounds.

Even if you are already proud of your backgrounds, you will learn to draw and paint them on a whole new level.

You can do this. I know how I used to feel, like I would never draw or paint good backgrounds, landscapes, interiors, etc, but once I learned a few key points, I started to draw good backgrounds.

Here are a few of those key points that you will learn in this course.

  • Making perspective easy.
  • Composition:
  • Learning how to use the basics of Google Sketchup that will give you a jump start in drawing and painting backgrounds. It's almost like cheating, but great artists like the guy who draws for Dare Devil comics uses it.
  • How to use form in backgrounds.

So who is this guy, you might be thinking.

I am a top art instructor here at Udemy with over 10,000 students and a bestselling author on Amazon for “How to Draw Awesome Figures.”

So, hey, follow along with me by enrolling in the course and learn to draw and paint backgrounds like you never have before.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone that wishes to draw amazing backgrounds for their art, such as comics, storyboards, paintings, illustrations, etc.
  • This course is not for those that already draw and paint amazing backgrounds.

Course content

7 sections • 51 lectures • 6h 13m total length

  • Preview01:51

  • Preview05:51
  • Preview12:40
  • Preview00:33
  • Preview03:59
  • Exercise: Set the mood
    00:41

  • Preview14:43
  • Exercise: Which of the 9 rules can you spot?
    00:30
  • Rule 1: Center of Interest
    12:26
  • Exercise for center of interest
    00:48
  • Rule 2: Area--How to Use Panels or your Canvas
    04:05
  • Exercise for panels
    01:08
  • Rule 3: Framing
    06:38
  • Exercise for framing
    01:00
  • Rule 4: Spacing
    04:13
  • Exercise or spacing
    00:55
  • Rule 5: Value and Colors
    07:28
  • Exercise for value and colors
    00:56
  • Rule 6: The 70/30 rule
    05:37
  • Exercise for the 70/30 rule
    01:14
  • Rule 7: Leading Lines
    11:44
  • Exercise for leading lines
    01:07
  • Rule 8: Depth--Overlapping--Creating the illusion of 3D
    11:39
  • Exercise for adding depth
    01:35
  • Rule 9: Rule of thirds
    03:54
  • Exercise for rule of thirds
    01:18

  • Perspective in a nutshell
    15:50
  • Exercise for perspective
    01:08

  • Sketching the background
    08:09
  • Fixing the perspective of our sketch
    14:18
  • Adding details to our sketch
    14:01
  • How to Ink your backgrounds
    18:01
  • How to value paint backgrounds
    19:36
  • Adding basic colors to the background
    11:14
  • How to draw building lights and details
    19:30
  • How to color signs and glass for buildings
    07:51
  • Adding the rest of the city lights to the background buildings
    13:10
  • Coloring details for the flying train and tunnel
    19:09
  • Coloring the buildings with the key light
    08:30
  • Adding lights and signs
    19:56
  • Coloring the ground: how to paint lights and rainy ground
    10:49
  • Coloring the trees
    02:56
  • Coloring the subway guy
    05:39
  • Coloring Robot Girl
    04:51
  • Coloring the main character
    02:43
  • Coloring the taxi
    08:28
  • Adding finishing touches
    03:39
  • Exercise for sci-fi background
    01:48

  • How to use Google Sketchup for backgrounds
    19:57
  • Exercise for Google Sketchup
    01:29

  • Conclusion: Thank you for taking my course
    02:29

Instructor

Neil Fontaine
Art Instructor, Professional Painter, Writer
Neil Fontaine
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 9,651 Reviews
  • 83,594 Students
  • 17 Courses

I'm a best selling author on Amazon for "How to Draw Awesome Figures."

I studied art at different schools, one of them being a community college in San Jose, Ca. Over the years, subjects in art finally clicked. I teach these subjects in ways that make it easy to grasp. It's hard to brag about myself, but students have written me emails saying how they have learned more from me than they did in art schools, art schools such as Academy of Arts in San Franscico. That blew my mind because it's supposed to be a great school. 

I also sell abstract paintings that I painted while meditating. A recent painting sold for $10,963. If enough art students ask, I will make a course on how to abstract paint. You can see my paintings at saatchiArt

I'm also a writer that has sold novels.

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