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Ryan Pardee

BFA in Illustration - Entertainment Arts — Illustration
Course:
Background Painting
Faculty:
Justin Brandstater
Term:
2024 Fall

Background Painting

Over the course of fourteen weeks, we were tasked with designing two separate background paintings, each with two variations of time of day (creating four paintings total). The goal of this project was to create a background design that could effectively work in two different lighting scenarios.

Process:

For each background design, we started with three compositional layout sketches, with tonal value. Then, after choosing one to move forward with, I took the layout from sketch to lineart, and finally to full-color. After finishing the first version of the painting, I then did three more color layout sketches, exploring other lighting scenarios. Then, I repainted my original painting to express the difference of time of day.

Learning Outcomes:

This project gave me valuable insight on the process of designing a scene that can work in multiple lighting contexts, as well as organizational work methods to make the process of repainting more efficient.

Tags:
2D Design,
Concept Design,
Environmental Design,
World Building
Compositional thumbnails with more finalized tonal value sketch for a nighttime scene.
Value studies for various daytime lighting scenarios of the same scene.
Final lineart for the layout of the first background design.
Finalized night and late afternoon versions.
Compositional thumbnails for the layout of the second background design.
Tonal sketch for the daytime version of the second background design.
Finalized day and night versions.