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.
What are the requirements?
You need to know the basics of drawing.
You will need to download the free Google Sketchup
What am I going to get from this course?
Over 51 lectures and 6 hours of content!
Draw backgrounds that have correct perspective and light and shadow.
Paint backgrounds with proper colors and tone.
Draw awesome backgrounds for their comics
What is the target audience?
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.
Curriculum
Section 1: Let's get started
Lecture 1
Why you should take this course
01:51
Section 2: Concepts that will help you draw better backgrounds.
Lecture 2
What is a background?
05:51
Lecture 3
How to arrange objects
12:40
Lecture 4
Exercise: Arranging objects
00:33
Lecture 5
Set the mood by where we place the subject
03:59
Lecture 6
Exercise: Set the mood
00:41
Section 3: Composition
Lecture 7
The 9 rules of compisition
14:43
Lecture 8
Exercise: Which of the 9 rules can you spot?
00:30
Lecture 9
Rule 1: Center of Interest
12:26
Lecture 10
Exercise for center of interest
00:48
Lecture 11
Rule 2: Area--How to Use Panels or your Canvas
04:05
Lecture 12
Exercise for panels
01:08
Lecture 13
Rule 3: Framing
06:38
Lecture 14
Exercise for framing
01:00
Lecture 15
Rule 4: Spacing
04:13
Lecture 16
Exercise or spacing
00:55
Lecture 17
Rule 5: Value and Colors
07:28
Lecture 18
Exercise for value and colors
00:56
Lecture 19
Rule 6: The 70/30 rule
05:37
Lecture 20
Exercise for the 70/30 rule
01:14
Lecture 21
Rule 7: Leading Lines
11:44
Lecture 22
Exercise for leading lines
01:07
Lecture 23
Rule 8: Depth--Overlapping--Creating the illusion of 3D
11:39
Lecture 24
Exercise for adding depth
01:35
Lecture 25
Rule 9: Rule of thirds
03:54
Lecture 26
Exercise for rule of thirds
01:18
Section 4: Perspective
Lecture 27
Perspective in a nutshell
15:50
Lecture 28
Exercise for perspective
01:08
Section 5: Drawing a sci-fi background
Lecture 29
Sketching the background
08:09
Lecture 30
Fixing the perspective of our sketch
14:18
Lecture 31
Adding details to our sketch
14:01
Lecture 32
How to Ink your backgrounds
18:01
Lecture 33
How to value paint backgrounds
19:36
Lecture 34
Adding basic colors to the background
11:14
Lecture 35
How to draw building lights and details
19:30
Lecture 36
How to color signs and glass for buildings
07:51
Lecture 37
Adding the rest of the city lights to the background buildings
13:10
Lecture 38
Coloring details for the flying train and tunnel
19:09
Lecture 39
Coloring the buildings with the key light
08:30
Lecture 40
Adding lights and signs
19:56
Lecture 41
Coloring the ground: how to paint lights and rainy ground
10:49
Lecture 42
Coloring the trees
02:56
Lecture 43
Coloring the subway guy
05:39
Lecture 44
Coloring Robot Girl
04:51
Lecture 45
Coloring the main character
02:43
Lecture 46
Coloring the taxi
08:28
Lecture 47
Adding finishing touches
03:39
Lecture 48
Exercise for sci-fi background
01:48
Section 6: Google Sketchup overview
Lecture 49
How to use Google Sketchup for backgrounds
19:57
Lecture 50
Exercise for Google Sketchup
01:29
Section 7: Conclusion
