Create Background Art in Adobe Photoshop

Background design, concept art, digital painting. All of these skills come together in this course. Welcome to the world of background art and environment design.

This course is going to teach you the fundamentals of creating art for animation, including concept art, color keys, layout drawing and final background painting. This is your chance to learn the skills and concepts to become a background designer. You are going to learn how to paint digitally, how to draw backgrounds and how to develop a sketch to a fully realized background for a scene.

In this course you'll work on 2 background projects that I've crafted for you so that you can learn and practice different and varied styles of background art. Along the way you'll also learn all about the principles of background design for animation, as well as tips and tricks that I've used as a background artist throughout my career in the animation industry. In the first project, you'll get to learn:• all about the color wheel, and explore color harmony rules.

•You'll learn about lighting, and how to use light and shadow in your painting. •You'll learn to use a specific brush pack and show you brush and painting techniques. •You'll also learn how to create amazing atmospheric effects in your paintings and paint up a concept art fantasy scene.