4 years ago I was terrified of drawing backgrounds, especially cities. Still not my forte but tried to face the fear! - ThreadSky

meganimation.bsky.social • 665 days ago

4 years ago I was terrified of drawing backgrounds, especially cities. Still not my forte but tried to face the fear!

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stupidartpunk.bsky.social•163 days ago

Oh dang these are incredible! Great job!

meganimation.bsky.social•163 days ago

Thank you!!

rocketgal.bsky.social•665 days ago

Raaaaaad

swilly.bsky.social•162 days ago

Umm I’d say you’re pretty freakin forte at this

meganimation.bsky.social•161 days ago

Haha thank you, but it was a long process to get even this far! And I still need ref and guides often

paperflan.bsky.social•163 days ago

These are so good though fr, i needa up my bg game 😭

meganimation.bsky.social•162 days ago

Nooo ur too kind 🙏💕

nigel63.bsky.social•162 days ago

I used to love popping into the Layout Dept, back in the day. 🥰

americanninjax.bsky.social•658 days ago

These are epic!

meganimation.bsky.social•657 days ago

Ty!!

lrndvs.bsky.social•456 days ago

!!!! These are amazing!!! Really inspiring me to practice backgrounds 😭

meganimation.bsky.social•455 days ago

Omg I know you would kill it!!!

tylerhendrix.bsky.social•665 days ago

wow these are all great!

meganimation.bsky.social•665 days ago

thanks!

qquipart.bsky.social•456 days ago

These are so gorgeous! any tips to get into it? I always find mine look so still

meganimation.bsky.social•456 days ago

i def struggle with that too...of my mapcrunch studies i did within a time limit, so forcing yourself to be like "ahhh fuq it" and just make decisions seemed to help me a lot!

coelasquid.bsky.social•162 days ago

Loooove that first one

meganimation.bsky.social•162 days ago

thank you so much!!

rebeckeronie.bsky.social•665 days ago

Incredible work! I’m still terrified of it, but I want to lose myself in those details so bad.

meganimation.bsky.social•665 days ago

Thank you!! Life drawing/map crunching environments is really what made the difference for me and not stuffy perspective tutorials ☺️ you can do it!!

rebeckeronie.bsky.social•665 days ago

OOO noted!! Thank you, I’ll give it a shot :>

matiashannecke.bsky.social•456 days ago

Woah! These are great!

meganimation.bsky.social•456 days ago

thank you!!

dikalaha.bsky.social•162 days ago

Oh but these are so nice!!! Super dynamic and lead your eye through the space so well 💖

avivor.bsky.social•665 days ago

These are wonderful!!

malleys.bsky.social•456 days ago

I love the first one specially. Do you have any advice to start? Did you used some tutorial or course?

meganimation.bsky.social•455 days ago

Thank you, the first is my favorite as well ☺️ I used map crunch references for all of these, it's been my favorite resource tbh!

yeaunganimation.bsky.social•163 days ago

THESE ARE AMAZING!!! BG is still my weakness.

stung.art•456 days ago

Excellent stuff

meganimation.bsky.social•456 days ago

hey thanks so much!

dagnificent.bsky.social•658 days ago

THESE ARE TREMENDOUS

icytwaine.bsky.social•163 days ago

Wow I love these, especially the first and last, they feel so cozy, like I’d wanna live there!

meganimation.bsky.social•163 days ago

I'd wanna too tbh 😭 tyyy

elyjenna.bsky.social•162 days ago

they’re great! Nothing to be shy about here:D

meganimation.bsky.social•162 days ago

aww thanks Jenn 😭💕

twarda.bsky.social•456 days ago

Nice! How often have you been practicing? Are these pleinair studies?

meganimation.bsky.social•456 days ago

they're mapcrunches (like pleinair but google maps lol)

I sadly haven't been practicing currently bc I've been focused on storyboarding and some irl stuff, but these are from a few year back. I was practicing about once a week for 3-4 hours

meghanlands.bsky.social•163 days ago

Could you talk a little bit about what mapcrunching is? I understand Google maps is involved but like, how?

meghanlands.bsky.social•163 days ago

I'm sorry, I just saw your thread to that effect! Ignore me!

elotewaifu.bsky.social•163 days ago

So wait, you didn't use perspective grids for these?? And I read that you said these are years old now? 🤯 Literal goals as board artist afraid of backgrounds btw!

meganimation.bsky.social•163 days ago

To be fair I could NEVER draw these on a boarding schedule hahaha!!

meganimation.bsky.social•163 days ago

And I kind of BS'd a grid with the star tool in PS