Steem Cartoon : Cartoon Waterfall Concept

To be a good digital artist, one needs to have a good understanding of the colours. The imagination of each location must be good and there are times when each illustration that we create may not have its reference. Furthermore, the location that we now sketch is in the form of a cartoon. For this posing, I will share a bit of my method in painting the nature where I will cartoon it better by improving on the colouring technique and the my personal style of brush.

Usually before I start on an illustration, I will use rough speed painting to find the idea, mood and its surround. To me it is a note to myself before moving to the actual painting. You will notice it from the brush that I use. Normally I will use a rough brush so that the result will look more sketchy.

After the completion, I will get more information about the colour that I will be using.

This is my second speed paint whereby I will try to play with the composition of the other subjects.

Every speed painting will take me approximately 30 minutes to complete.

From the speed painting I will try to create more details. I will start with flat colour. Here the work of choosing the colour is easier because I have information of the colour palette that I will be using.

This process is more towards texturing each type of plants.

This is the part where I introduce shadow and lighting. Here I will use the blue colour for a cold shadow and olive green for hot shadow.

This is the final process where I will focus more on the foreground. The part where I will detail so that the simple texture will look more cartoonish.

I will include some cartoon characters to get the maximum effect.

I hope that this will help you understand how a background artist like myself create a background in decent speed.

credit to @zomagic