Line Backgrounds

For the next few weeks before lectures started back, I was colouring in some backgrounds that Bry has scanned in and uploaded to Dropbox for me. Dropbox is very handy for sharing these files quickly. After deciding that she would like to have her pencil lines in her back grounds, she was still unsure of the colours she wanted to use, and so just told me try lot's of different combinations, and then to put them in dropbox for her to see.

These are the images I'd received on Dropbox. I'm really excited about the background designs she has created. I really want to give her some fantastic and beautiful backgrounds for her film. 

I then began to paint these backgrounds.

I first touched back upon my previous work where I'd used purples for the trees. I'd employed the use of a gradient fill on the forest floor, although it isn't soft enough for the effect we're going for.

An all blue palette here. We were unsure of whether or not the closest plane would be darkest because of the  camera angle... I am still unsure on that.

A more turquoise colour for the trees.

And again, but with a little detail. I preferred this colour scheme out of the 3 I developed, but it still needed some work. 

I was also very aware that I had to learn how to Alpha Channel, after watching some Youtube tutorials and google-ing it, I had indeed separated the lines from the scanned image, although there was a lot of pixellation that wasn't very pretty, and was bogging up the clean line we wanted for the background. But until I saw Bry next I just had a go at colouring this scene. I do not feel that it works well at all, and there is far too much mess from the scanned image.