BACKGROUND TIPS for BEGINNERS | PROCESS | Medibang Paint Pro

[@Napalmenjoyer]

Me: Those are some nice clouds! Video: When you start drawing mountains.... Me: Oh...

[@catcatmeow42]

Lol same 😂

[@dragonsaremadeofdreams]

I thought they were mountains, then trees, then clouds, then mountains again.

[@whiile1239]

@Davion Clay says the people who coincidentally joined yt at the same exact time March 6th. Smh. Legit stop advertising. If hacking insta was possible with a simple app there would be far more cases and people demanding for better security

[@aria9502]

When you watch a speed paint and it goes from sketches to god-tier

[@BeanBurrito2413]

Most of them are still amazing when they're still sketches

[@artwithgigi7162]

The most satsifying thing in exsistance

[@riyasworld6605]

@@BeanBurrito2413 ok

[@bananazforlife]

ikr like i could never 😭

[@aria9502]

Why I check this comment from 5 years ago and it has 1k likes😭

[@LucarnAnderson]

oof making backgrounds has always been hard for me. thanks for these tips.

[@akevdisbejvsjsvhrjsbsjdhdvajnh]

*a wild Lucarn has appeared!*

[@LucarnAnderson]

Of course clock birds was my main motivation for digital art since they created amazing pieces in Medibang. also Jesus I didn't realize that comment got a lot of likes lol

[@LucarnAnderson]

Legendery Person I'm a little better! But any improvement is good improvement :)

[@countryoffelines]

Hey how about now? Can you draw them now just like you wanted?

[@LucarnAnderson]

@@countryoffelines Ive improved a little more skill in digital art because I haven’t done it in awhile but I have improved greatly in other physical mediums of art! I can woodwork, make sculptures, prop replicas, art dolls and more. I hope any goals you have you’re closer to achieving or have done! And I hope that you have a wonderful day/night.

[@jyotibhardwaj4467]

Your whole art is legendary. I don't have words to say

[@lyzellai3159]

You clearly said some words. XD

[@Babirusacurl]

Lyzellai r/wooosh

[@AloeWing]

I’m woodshed to then

[@moonwatchereclipse5291]

@@AloeWing wowowow aloe wing from the wof fandom?! I didn't know you had watched this video lmao

[@lalalalacanthearyou]

@@Babirusacurl they were kidding too😂

[@corquue9210]

This really helped me improve my backgrounds! And I really live your speed paint and how it turned out at the end! I get a fierce, brave, curious, and adventurous feel from it! Keep up your amazing work!

[@bananakitofinternetclan8350]

Also... when I shade, I usually quickly outline the areas where shadows will go. This way, if I make a mistake with the placement of the shadows, I don't have to erase the shading I worked on so hard. Instead I'm just erasing a simple outline that took no effort whatsoever. It's also good if you want to preserve your eraser. When your eraser is erasing shading, it can get very dirty very quickly, but if it's only erasing a simple pencil line, then that has no effect on the eraser. Sometimes if you erase shading, it will have a noticeable "ghost" on the paper but if a line has a "ghost" it's not as noticeable. Also make your outline very light so that it's less likely to have a ghost, or so that you can shade over it. I just thought I would share this. It's probably already a technique, but I kinda.. realized this on my own, I guess. Idk if this will be useful to anyone, lol...

[@kakao-katze]

Title: background tips for beginners- Me: beginners? Lets have a look, maybe it will help me with the ske- *Watches video* Me: oh boy. Guess I'm not a beginner, I'm an absolute noob.

[@RoboSmax]

XD I think most of us can relate.

[@birbwithscarf]

Even though the drawing is a visual masterpiece, but when you really focus on what she’s saying, the background tips are all really common and easy to understand, and are very simple but important and sometimes easy to overlook. Great tips in general

[@yellowing3584]

WITH THAT MINDSET YOUR NOT GONNA IMPROVE ÙWÚ

[@icarus6560]

Are you still a noob? XD

[@harutosfrontteeth6043]

@@yellowing3584 yeah that's right dude

[@Stxrcane]

YASS!! I saw all the WIPs on Instagram and I just couldn't WAIT to see the process of it!

[@nikkisalmond8630]

Ooh, yet another amazing medibang artwork by clockbirds! You shouldn't apologize for not replying to some comments considering your one of the only you tubers I know who actually reply to any at all. I love the character and have actually started imagining my own oc to draw one day. Anyway great artwork, thanks for all your help, tips and advice for your fans (me included :3), you're so aware of our requests and questions, thanks for being a amazing idol. Keep making art, from me. Xoxo

[@jad__lad]

Woah. This is probably my favourite video of yours! These tips are very helpful and the art in the video was astonishing. Keep it up!

[@bananakitofinternetclan8350]

*Opens up a book about legends* First chapter: Clockbird's Art. Second chapter: Clockbird's Art. Third chapter: Clockbird's Art. Tenth chapter... fiftieth chapter.... one hundredth chapter...

[@Dimonds456]

Backgrounds are always so intimidating, but you really helped me gain more confidence while working with them. Thank you so much!

[@kitkatthe2tails]

This is definitely a video that can be used in so many different ways. The best part is that if you want to learn some things from Jax's videos you dont have to have your volume up. You can just simply watch her draw!

[@neko_vision8429]

Can you please, please and please do a tutorial on leaves or water? ( Awesome art BTW, but I think you already know that.)

[@phantasmarina]

Flaily The KittyKat I think most of the time she uses a certain brush from what I have seem

[@kirwashere]

Ohh awesome!! I've been drawing digitally for a few years now, but I always struggle with backgrounds, so it's great to see this! Especially watching your work being done in a program I love. I always see background tips and tutorials that look like they only work in Photoshop, but seeing your beautiful background being painted in Medibang is really inspiring! This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much!!

[@sleeperdawg]

Backgrounds are my worst enemy! Thanks for covering this.

[@-koperkat8415]

Good points on the colour. One reason why starting with gray and blues feels right is the air desaturation. Basically air isn't nothing and the more of it iit is between you and a mountain the bluer the mountain will be. And that it with clean clear air, but if you think about a dry month with a lot of dust particles in the air they will make the distant object seem blured and desaturated. This is the reason why sunny mornings after heavy night rains look so vibrant. It's also an important think to keep in mind when portraying heavily polluted city-scapes. Googling China's cities for a reference is a good bet.

[@foxtonthefreakshowhound832]

omg your art so so damn inspiring. even the speedpaints give me motivation

[@g.snapdragon9817]

Yessss Thank you so much! Backgrounds are the bane of my existence right now. I have a habit of putting way too much detail and making the perspective completely wrong - I don’t know why I never thought of adding birds or animals as a scale reference. Thanks again, this is very helpful!

[@LolixBelle]

G. Snapdragon we all did at some point used to stress about it, I learnt to use the blur effect for backgrounds too, just painting the outline of a tree or village and blurring it makes you shity background not as shity, we are all here to learn.

[@DenvaProbablyDraws]

You are the third artist on KZbin who has helped me improve my art style and composition the most. And I’ve watched many, many artists here. Thank you ❤️

[@mange2696]

You. Are. A. Lifesaver.

[@Irinaav7]

I can't get over how impressive your art is

[@raeyh538]

The background mountains are amazing I love it

[@earlgrey7570]

i think what we meant by “how do you do backgrounds” was not only this, but also things like rocks and mountains, trees and other textures. great work tho, this seems really helpful.

[@spacelyft2418]

your art is already super immersive and organic let me tell you- in your last work 'peace' i think it was called, the end result was so incredible! I felt like I was THERE, yknow? the way you use colors and draw backgrounds and characters is so amazing. I really hope i can learn how to draw backgrounds like you

[@jeannejones3845]

Could you do a tutoriel on the different plant and foliage brushes you use and how to make them? Or on the different brushes you use in general ?

[@msk-qp6fn]

Thanks for the tips! I've always been one to struggle with backgrounds in both traditional and digital medium. This is helping out a lot!!! Thanx a bunch!!!

[@OnibiTeru]

When you're a traditional artist and get bewildered at all the fancy program illustrations, not knowing anything. Me: you're still figuring it out? Girl, I don't even know what you're doing and it looks absolutely amazing! But really the piece alone looks great and it seems so easy, how you handle the program alone, and change your sketch into such beautiful work. I have no clue about digital art, but I do hope to try and get into it one day, it looks fun because of all the things you can do in there. Basically creating magic for the eyes.

[@padalec_]

Wow! Tiger - I must download it ❤

[@RAF_7]

Your painting process is so mesmerizing and your final pieces are just sooo amazing 🙃 I look up to you and your art so much

[@nekokarenart]

Please please in the future if you have time, can you make a video where you show us how you use the layers through every drawing you make

[@rachelsamuel2487]

I have never used a painting software before, let alone paint in real life, but I love your videos. Keep up the amazing work!

[@red_vibe9984]

Your piece is beautiful. And using color palettes are really useful. They help me with character design and backgrounds.

[@markpajo2528]

Thank you thank you so much for this tutorial! I was having a hard time rendering the background of my contest entry for Neytirix (The LordDeathPain III ), but thanks to you I can finally make my background look better and appealing! I'm very glad you made my day lucky :D

[@OfishlNQOC]

Perfect time for you to put out a video like this. I've always struggled with backgrounds so avoided them all together. But just yesterday I tried to do something with a fairly simple background. Hopefully this helps with that 😸

[@AkimboACA]

Oh gosh I- the textures are - ✨immaculate✨

[@cheesebags4341]

This is the video I found you through, I love your work so much.

[@roshsiku9556]

the thumbnail made me gasp. LIKE OMFGGG

[@madison5633]

Ah I've been waiting for this!! It's so beautiful, I love the colors and the landscape brought everything together! You're a wonderful artist, and a huge inspiration. Thank you for the videos and the amazing art that you make

[@AstralDaemon]

Thank you so much for making this video! I really look up to your style as it's just so vibrant, I'll definitely be revisiting this video multiple times while working on artworks to improve!

[@NettlewoodPark]

Beautiful image! Nice, you've silloetted the forground tree to frame the image and create intrigue, and brightened the background to draw the viewers eye in to create depth.

[@animutung]

i 've watched this video too many time to not write a comment, what a absolutely stunning piece of art

[@Akeari]

Hey ClockBirds! I’m extremely happy you decided to do a video on this topic! I think I learned a lot more then I though I would ^^! But I still have a question. How do you get background *ideas?* Ideas for my backgrounds is the hardest for me. Do you look up something with scenery in it yourself and import that idea into your drawing or something else? But thank you again for making this video, it helped me incredibly ^•^!

[@Haromegaa]

- LaggDog - hey! I’m not clockbirds (obviously) but I generally use my own imagination. If you’re stuck, look up reference photos for whatever theme background you’re planning on making. Google is your friend.

[@Akeari]

AceLynne / Thank you! Searching up themes is a good idea, thank you for that. But is there a specific search term you use/would use? Because I can’t seem to find any ^^

[@clockbirds]

i typically follow a lot of concept artists and photographers on instagram! if i see something i like, either with the scene, composition or colours i'll typically download it and keep it in a folder to go back to. also with these commissions, usually the commissioner will suggest environment ideas they want their characters to be in and that also really helps narrow down the idea! it can be really hard to start from nothing! the best thing you can do is to pick a environment type (e.g. field, forests, ocean etc...), look up images for those specific things (either art or photographs) and try to think up a unique composition yourself based on what you see others doing ^u^

[@Akeari]

clockbirds / Ah, ok! The Instagram thing is a nice idea, I’ll check that and the other things you mentioned out when I have free time. Thank you! But I do have another question? Could you maybe do a video on how to make fur with your new-ish fur technique? The one where you use the Watercolor tools? I watched your other video on ‘How to draw fur’ and actually still use that fur technique now! But I’m feeling that your watercolor fur style is a little more smooth with fur? And please correct me if you’ve already made a video on it. I’m also not trying to pressure you, do whatever you want! ^•^

[@reece3059]

THANK YOU SO MUCH !! ilysm and you're such an amazing artist and i've enjoyed watching you grow and improve and you're my biggest idol please keep drawing :)

[@molol_potions5267]

Yes! This was perfect timing bc I've been studying on color theory and prospective to improve my art! Tysm!

[@rissan]

THIS VIDEO WILL SAVE ME THANK YOU ILY

[@Ramielalaine]

I'll try, the colors is so hard for me but thanks to you that i realized my mistakes! It motivated me to draw backgrounds thanks

[@aquajay3293]

This actually helps me! I started off with greyscale and it works! Thanks!

[@RhasegonValerionTempest]

All your arts are just so amazing and beautiful.. thanks for all your hard work!

[@treefel6442]

This was super helpful! Thank you so much! Its gonna take a lot more practice but im feeling more confident to tackle it

[@thedrawingvlog1874]

great tips for environments! I always postpone doing backgrounds... I should start practicing too 😊

[@crystaljones1998]

Thanks for these tips! Also, I really love the picture you made!

[@orewatowi]

I love all your videos! I hope one day you make a tutorial for water, because the way you paint it is incredible!!!

[@balancewod1864]

This is way to good Also the tips are so good,I feel like restarting my artwork project again

[@ninaruseva7015]

Thank you so much for giving us tips for making backgrounds! Keep up the amazing work!

[@thinkvirus6627]

Thanks, I love your channel.

[@ladyelfstar4262]

that was really helpful. you should do more tutorials and process videos they're all gold.

[@blackdemonheart9696]

I've been watching a few of your videos over time I was shocked that I didn't subscribe on the spot! Your video quality, informative and visually is outstanding! I will definitely use these tips when I start practicing backgrounds, because my art is lacking them! Thank you!

[@chloemckendry3750]

that’s an amazing drawing! thank you so much for doing a background tutorial, i’ve been looking forward to this for a while and so glad you did it. i think what i always do wrong is oversaturate, i just needed someone to tell me that to realize it haha. thanks again for sharing your tips!

[@clockbirds]

i totally understand the problem with oversaturating haha x'D i feel like when we start art, we're constantly being pushed away from using grey because they make things look muddy and dull - but it's really a wonderful 'colour' for creating realistic scenes and helping make other colours pop!

[@Taylor-wx8mq]

Omg I’ve been struggling with drawing backgrounds and this was super helpful thank you!!

[@cheesebags4341]

This is really great! I just started trying to draw backgrounds better, and this video really helped!

[@kiyvro2601]

It looks so good! I really like this painting.

[@mange2696]

I was looking for a video like this yesterday ;3; I'm so glad you uploaded this

[@godofwar4688]

man u r art is so beautiful

[@lilcreaper248]

Thank you so much for this! All these tips are very useful and I will be sure to keep these in mind when I draw my landscapes in the future. Sometimes the smallest things can really improve a piece :]

[@sianparkins3413]

This is beautiful yet incredibly daunting 😨😍

[@LigiaNunesS]

Loved the video and your art, thank you for the tips!

[@slingingfool3668]

Thanks for the help! I just got a drawing tablet for my birthday so this will really help me! Love your artwork as always and the tips were great! Love you Clockbirds keep up the amazing work 💕 😊🙃

[@kuraeyaa]

Ah gosh thank you for these tips! I have such a hard time doing/creating backgrounds but this is really helpful!

[@serpentarius1194]

backgrounds are my one area I absolutely SUCK at, so thank you so much for this!

[@tlo3olt]

This was so helpful, not to mention your beautiful artwork to go with it. Thank you for making this ❤👌

[@insegundapiel]

This video was helpful, I took notes! Maybe the next tutorial could be on final edits in photoshop?

[@Riverfilly153]

This video met me right where I am, I draw everything out, and it makes my scenes feel shallow. I have a hard time finding good brushes as well. Then again, I use photoshop and traditional exclusively, so I don’t know what features procreate has.

[@FreeBirdArt]

Thank you for this. This will help me a lot! You inspire me so much!! 💜

[@nextquestion3773]

You're so good that the moment I saw the sketches I said, "Ok I'm out"

[@thomleach]

Fantastic information in this video. Thanks for sharing this!

[@MrBaumTV]

Can you elaborate more on how you find the certain mood? Like you do in 1:34. Do you just play around with general tones and then adjust the environment to the light you choose?

[@Luna-ej4mi]

*gunshots screams explosions:* I slenp *ClockBirb uploads a video tutorial:* YEET!

[@user-yc3bi1ic1e]

Holy that is gorgeous

[@martearty922]

So gorgeous!!

[@nothappening1696]

Love your drawing!

[@justtowatchvids569]

These tips are very helpful as backgrounds and scenery have always been a difficult thing for me. Thank you so much for the tips! Do you ever use references for a general idea of what you want the backgrounds in your pieces to look like or do you always have a clear image in your head of what you're going for?

[@tateryboi6604]

Your voice is so nice aaaaaa This really helps too, I’ve been struggling with trees and mountains X3

[@ritamoschini4312]

So cool! thanks for the tips!

[@kion_wolfheim]

Finally. This helps so much!! Thank you

[@luciajalf1494]

Que lindo te quedo el dibujo clockbirds, tus recomendaciones son buenas, he aprendido a dibujar por ti, gracias, muy bello el vídeo, todos tus vídeos.

[@blizzard4821]

I realy love your drawings because they are so mythycal and beautiful

[@happybee9194]

AMAZING tips!! Thanks so much!

[@hazeldawncreations]

IT IS SO GOOD I- no words

[@DenvaProbablyDraws]

Clockbirds, I know this is sort of a personal question, and you may not ever even see it, but who is your inspiration when you're making backgrounds? Like, which artist inspired your backgrounds the most? I'm just very curious, because your scenes are so magical, even if you don't think so, I certainly do.

[@candiebeez]

Oh my lord this is helpful!! Thank you so much for the tips, in the future I will use them

[@Roxirin]

Thank you so much for the tips! I really love this artwork, your colour palettes are absolutely beautiful as always

[@daafrofungus5437]

I'm watching your painting in .25 speed to understand some more, thanks !

[@ivanastudio3481]

wow! What good drawings do you do! I love them!👍❤

[@anagarredebies946]

that helps a lot thank you so much! Amazing artwork too

[@basil_leaf7036]

*THIS IS WHAT WE NEEDED TH A N K Y O U*

[@LemonAide]

Thanks for the tips! they really do help alot!

[@Zen-kh2hn]

Her: * makes this godly artwork* Also her: “ so yeah im still learning”

[@elssiie]

I really love all of your videos! This one was so helpful. I was wondering if you could make a tutorial about how to use medibang paint pro. The program seems really good and I really want to give it a try.

[@marivena]

Those are nice tips, thank you for this video! And the piece is outstanding imo =)