What Makes Detailed Backgrounds Look Good? | Drawing - Illustration - Fundamentals

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This is an interesting one. I have spent a lot of time teaching students over the years master their Illustration skills, and I find it's often these little details that take the longest time to perfect.
Micro Composition (I don't know if it's an official term... but it's been a good way to explain the concept over the years to people!) Is where we consider many of the same abstract compositional rules but at the small scale.
It's important to keep doing these small tasks of arrangement and managing tangents, and stepping back to check how details are affecting the whole... All the way through an image.
Thinking of these small areas in this way has helped me to spend more time on them with my own art. And also to understand that this is building important muscles for general picture making.
Try to view all the little details in your image as great practice for you overall ability to arrange things and create good design and art!
Happy Drawing!
Tim Mcburnie
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[@minseokwon6484]

Trying to give consistent rhythm, and sense of style to not only main figure but to all of buildings, trees and grass is one of things that I always have hard time understanding. Both in technical level and compositional level. Thank you for the video :)

[@alice2487]

This will change the way I approach drawing backgrounds forever! Thank you so much for this amazing video!

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks!!

[@aryatenea]

Big fan of your work.

[@yasminmagalhaes4309]

Fantastic video~ Your channel is a treasure!!

[@lucasvalente6619]

Thank you for this!

[@cory99998]

Great video, haven't heard of this before

[@defhermann]

i like your hair - nice video

[@TheDrawingCodex]

lol

[@Art-What..]

Codex..the devils in the details, great talk about..been gone for a minute, phone issues.. thanks..

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Haha for sure! Thanks for checking out the video!!!

[@tiagodagostini]

I am amazed you did not flip a copy of vagabond in your examples.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

That would have been a great example!!

[@MegaPieru3000]

Good video!!

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks 🙏