#scenery tutorial

[art-tnt]

A brief and easy tutorial on basic Copic marker coloring techniques. The subject here is simple bushes. Tutorial article is by Marianne Walker. Check it out here.

[amalas-tutorial-and-inspiration]

A very simple and quick guide to some scenery/background building. This is drawn sloppy..but you get the idea!

You can already create a lot of world and scenery without knowing everything about perspective or architecture

Just try things out and play around with colors and shapes.

Distant things are lighter than closer objects! So check your hues and values. Other than this go wild with colors and try out!

[punk-yolk]

Scarif

[the-crimson-king]

Hello! Here is a tutorial I’ve been working on recently, hope that it all makes sense to y’all.

So I wanted to make a set of harbour walls for my game boards. Originally I planned for the harbour to be set up along one board edge as in the first picture. (obviously the green squares are the boards, the grey bits are the harbour walls and the blue’s the water.)

I decided that it was easier to do each harbour piece maximum 12″ long as that’d make them easier to store. So for the first set up I’d need four 12″ sections. 

I would have preferred to use 40mm thick Styrofoam but here in the UK it seems horribly difficult to get hold of Styrofoam, so I defaulted to my standard of using foam board. In picture 2 I’ve just detailed the tools etc I use when making terrain - sharp hobby knife, cutting board, PVA glue, nice steel rulers, and also pins.

Anyways, I decided that each harbour piece should be 12″ long, 40mm tall and 2″ wide. To start with I cut out eight 12″ x 2″ pieces of foamboard for the top and bottom of each harbour piece. Then I cut out eight pieces of 12″ x 30mm for the front and back. (with the added thickness of the top and bottom that’ll add up to 40mm tall). Finally I needed eight end pieces that are 30mm x 40mm. In picture 3 you can see the three different sizes of board I cut.

Because I want the harbour walls to have a stone effect, I took four of the 12″ x 2″ pieces (the tops) and four of the 12″ x 30mm pieces (the fronts) and peeled the paper off one side. This exposes the foam as you can sort of see in picture 4.

Finally in picture 5 I scored some stones into the exposed foam using a craft knife. When the walls are stuck together I’ll deepen the scores using a pencil, but for now I find it’s better to leave them like this.

In my next post I’ll show you what I did next! Hope you find this useful! :D

[the-crimson-king]

So part two of the harbour tutorial!

First (picture 1) I take the bottom piece and stick some pins in a little way. Then (picture 2) put PVA on the back and sides, and add the board for those pieces, using the pins to hold the pieces together while the glue’s still wet.

Picture 3 has the front piece added too. Because there’s no paper on the one side, you have to be careful when pushing the pins through so they don’t come right through the foam.

Finally add the top piece and pin it all in. When the glue dries the pins should pull back out easily enough. 

Soon, I will make the third part of this tutorial! Hope you like it!

[ochibrochi]

requested by @metaljupiter