First attempt at a background

Larrin · Sat 21/08/2004 02:00:20

I decided I wanted to try making an adventure game, here is my first try at a background: http://free.hostdepartment.com/b/bloosh/background.html

I have absolutely zero art experience, so I had mostly no idea what I was doing, and am completely oblivious to what I should improve/how good it is. Criticism is appreciated.

Ginny · Sat 21/08/2004 02:48:11

Not bad in my opinion. The combination of realistic (photo?) treeleaves and the rest being drawn is rather distracting, and the whole image could do with some more shading and depth, but a very good start

Btw, a tip: don't save art in .jpg. It can usually screw up your image with artifacts. Sometimes it doesn't, but it's best to use gif or png for forum use, and pcx, bmp or png for the game itself.

Good luck on your game and welcome to the forums!

Larrin · Sat 21/08/2004 03:21:44

This one is only a jpeg so that it is faster to download. I thought that the tree leaves might be kind of funny looking. I like the bush, but I might try re-doing the tree leaves to keep the cartoony style. LIke I said, I know nothing about art, so any specific suggestions and/or tutorials on shading and depth would be helpful. But really, I didn't want much depth for the background, as not much is planned for this background other than just walking in to the building.

mousemat · Sat 21/08/2004 08:29:22

looks better than my first background
maybe you should make the shadows larger or change the sky colour.

Larrin · Sun 22/08/2004 23:23:59

Somehow I don't feel like I've been helped much. Is it so perfect you have nothing specific to say?Ã,Â

Moox · Mon 23/08/2004 03:27:26

I think a green sphere would be better for the tree and the bush, just add a some leaf lines, the building needs depth tho.

Ginny · Mon 23/08/2004 12:37:47

I was thinking, and if you want to develop a style of photos and drawing combined, that might work. Those leaves are starting to grow on me

bad pun.

Anyway, to demonstrate a bit of shading and depth, I did a small paintover, if you don't mind. It's a very bad paintover, but it should show you how to add depth the building. It would require more ground behind it though, or a change in perspective.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/backgroundfinal_paintover.png
Meh, this turned out pretty terrible actually. Feel free to disregard it. Damn my non-existant art skills

Larrin · Mon 23/08/2004 14:26:34

OK, I see what you're talking about with the depth thing, but the only shading you added was with the newly added depth, and I don't think you colored that right, with the depth the side and top would have to be lighter than the front, but now I'm giving you criticism about your criticism about my artwork.

I'll try drawing the sides and top and darken the front. I'll also try drawing a cartoony tree and see how I like it. As soon as I get some time, anyway.

Ginny · Mon 23/08/2004 14:57:21

Yes, you're quite right about the colors, they're supposed to be lighter. They were really just a random pick, you can do better

Good luck

Phemar · Mon 23/08/2004 17:10:40

I would say not to cut 'n paste the grey lines along the wall. Instead redraw them differently each time.

Larrin · Mon 23/08/2004 23:35:21

Quote from: Zoraphus on Mon 23/08/2004 17:10:40

I would say not to cut 'n paste the grey lines along the wall. Instead redraw them differently each time.

Who said to do that?

Mr Jake · Mon 23/08/2004 23:37:37

I think zor meant that you shouldnt cut and paste them...

I like the background, very nice first attempt.

Larrin · Tue 24/08/2004 00:03:22

Quote from: Hotspot on Mon 23/08/2004 23:37:37
I like the background, very nice first attempt.

Thanks.