It's me again with probably the worst piece I've posted in this forum

I have no clue on how to draw backgrounds, and that's a big problem since i'm the only artist working in my project (that means I must make them)

I decided to make the backgrounds simple cell shaded (no more than 3 colors per layer) to hide a little the fact that I suck at these (and not overwork myself), however I still can't find a way to do that without them looking awful



This is how the hills look against the rest of the artwork (I have a separate topic for the background as a whole, so this one is just the hills)

Also, if someone has a tutorial or techniques or knowledge that can be useful when spriting backgrounds, it will be MORE than aprecciated

Quote from: surt on January 05, 2018, 06:32:58 am

The distant background layers could be made more interesting by having parts of the further layers dip behind the nearer layers so they don't all form continuous bands.

This is a particularly unrealistic aspect of the scene.
In particular:

• The solid grey band at the base of the closest mountains layer should be shaded like the top and interrupted by valleys, showing other mountains behind them (probably a layer of the same tiles).
• There should be at least one additional layer of greener mountains or hills, maybe even 2 or 3 layers, closer than the currently first one, which is blue enough to imply a lot of haze and therefore a great distance.
• Far mountains have no reason to be taller than close ones; in general, the curvature of Earth surface makes them appear slightly less tall on average. They should be visible between the peaks of closer layers.
• Clouds are layered vertically, not horizontally like mountains. If the sky is cloudy, put them at the top, possibly obscuring the top of all mountains, with holes of blue sky at low altitude (possibly near the horizon, visible through aligned gaps of all mountain layers); with less clouds, put them between and/or above the mountains at all distances.

Ok, some thing to note

• The back Grass is not walkable, is intended to be background
• What I tried to do with the clouds is that they are at the same level as the peak of the mountains, I didn't noticed the contradiction, if you are tall enough to see the clouds at the same level as you, then the scene should be foggy, that maybe can make up for the "emptiness" of the stage and add some originality

I'll show updates as soon as I fix the Tiled map that is massively glitching, Thanks

I think they all look pretty dope, but the Japaneese crest really seems out of place compared to the rest. Not sure if that is intentional since it is the only non-western country, but you may want to look into that (An outline or a more defined shape might fix that.)

Also, I think the USA one looks better without punctuation marks, but you'll have to decide on that yourself:


I keep editing this comment, haha.
Another thing I noticed that you could do is write the French thing in French, since the French do not usually resort to English. I'm not sure what the middle word is, but it would become Fédération B<not sure> Française. (Does it say Beatball?)

So I updated the logos and made some others
I TOTALLY don´t know what to do with japan maybe inspiration will come later

Thank you

Dude, that's WAY better keep the good work, do as Xand0r says and I think is ready, are you planning to animate it?

IMO

It depends on the work's artstyle

×if it is like a children's drawing then id say a pattern would do the job instead of shading

×if it is geometric or abstract like geometry dash or asteroids then my answer is "maybe", if it is a video game then conpare ir to the enviroment to see if it works.

In pixel art sprite of this size usually relies on simulating cell-shading (or at least that is what i do ) can i ask what is this sprite going to be used on?