I knooow. I suck at backgrounds too D:

It's all about studying composition though.

--
~~~(*･∀･ )／♡＼( ･∀･*)~~~

"I think zombies are just really stoned people. Look at them. They're always hungry." -MadWorld

I wish I could draw BG's too. ;A;

--

$5 commissions are open again!
Give the gift of art this year!
Note me for details!

I HATE backgrounds. >_< I always rush mine cause I just don't care about 'em.

--
"He who hesitates is poor!" ~ Max Bialystock (The Producers)

One excercise I enjoyed after reading someone else mention it on DA was drawing just a series of non-specific shapes all in perspective. Just pick a horizon line, and start drawing shapes. Don't worry about details for now. It doesn't have to look like a city or anything; it could just be blocks floating in space.

--
"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it."

I did that once way back in high school- I should try it again.

--

_{om mani padme hm}

Try free handing them first then put it all in perspective. Once you know perspective you'll naturally put it pretty close. I think gabe showed my class that

Also try to make it fun for yourself. If you don't like it it'll show. Give it life the same way you would a character. Instead of it being something extra in a page/panel let it take a personality of its own, just as important as the characters in it. I suck at backgrounds too and only recently have been emphasizing them and practicing to better them.

Also another technique maybe to draw the backgrounds first then placing the people in them rather than making the background be the last thing which makes you want to be done with the page/panel

hope that helps in anyways. I'm in noway good at backgrounds but these are the things I've been using myself to improve

--
im george zapata

my site

Thanks for the advice, man! I'll try it all out.

--

_{om mani padme hm}

You live in a good area to just go outside and have a scribble page to draw everything you see. Kind of like contour drawing except ... rural.

--
{+X...you're such an inspiration for the ways...X+}
{+x........that i'll never ever choose to be........x+}