Day 10: 30 Day Fantasy Background Challenge: Sleeping Beauty Ballroom Stairs

Woot! Actually was happy with today’s piece. Interior backgrounds were REALLY hard to do.

Here’s a couple lessons I learned here

Rule of Thirds

  • If you look at the piece, 1 third is the area with the blue door, then the stairs, then the red door in the background.
  • The oil paint brush with the multiply tool is a great way of “glazing” the piece (when you basically paint the piece black and white, then paint thin layers of color over it)
  • Brown is still a good base color for indoor settings too. I was using brown as a base color the natural landscapes, but I tried using black and white for Day 8 (my first “indoor” background), but it still didn’t look right.

Reference

My Version

Thanks everyone for joining me today! If you would like to take part in this challenge, please put a link in the comments so I can see your progress! Please read my comic, Dragonrider’s Dance on dragonridersdance.com or Webtoon Canvas! It’s an exciting fantasy/fairytale/action comic about a world where dragons are all female and disguise themselves as princesses!