I forgot to post about the backdrop I painted a few months ago!
It's made of a 9' x 12' canvas dropcloth, cut down to be about 9' x 8', which is much better than sewing it out of yardage. Both because it's cheaper, and because the dropcloth was woven 9 feet wide and has no seams.
I sewed a channel along the top so I could put a piece of wood through it and hang it from 3 nails. (The room it's in is not actually in my lease, but nobody's using it for anything besides storing a bit of furniture, so it's alright.)
The paint is flat white interior paint, mixed with some brown and black acrylic. I did 3 layers of trees in increasingly dark shades of greyish brown. I didn't use a brush for any of it, I painted the trunks with a narrow trim roller and used the edges of the roller for the branches. I covered up the floor with plastic before I laid it down to paint, and didn't get any paint on anything that wasn't mine.
My goal was to make it as neutral as possible so that it would look decent with lots of different clothes and not be distracting, and so that I could put a wide variety of .png frames in front of it. Since youtube videos are very wide there's still a lot of bare wall on either side if I'm zoomed all the way out, but it's very easy to cover up. I've only drawn the plain tree frame so far, but I mean to draw more in different styles for different projects.
