Painting an Anime Background in Photoshop

In this video I paint an environment referenced from a place in my local area.
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Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D (Currently with Redshift)
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[@Vallonism]

My heart nearly stopped when you said "I spent nearly 15-20", and i thought you were about to say minutes. Thankfully it was hours. Beautiful artwork!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! First sketch to blocking in some shapes in colours might have taken 20 min. But painting takes time.

[@Conceptsofsanket]

Its so stylised but also so realistic Idk what to say .... I like that you dont go for line art I just love it

[@roricute]

This is Anime Background

[@machidraws1]

its good to not do line art sometimes because you can stay more loose and change things as you go

[@flux1940]

the trick simply is: 1. realistic lighting 2. well controlled shapes and markmakings (not too small but blocky enough to keep it stylized) 3. slightly saturated colours 4. Lineart

[@PaintIt]

The Best Digital Art Tutorial.✨🎨 Thank you for sharing the steadily ❤️🙏

[@anthonyanaya849]

Ahh yes, just what I needed this Monday morning. Thanks Olof

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

You're such an inspiration to me as a fellow artist. I've learned so much from you and get excited every time you post something new! ❤️

[@MarschelArts]

Thank you for the walkthrough of this painting! Landscapes usually give me a hard time. From workflow to color choice, so seeing your process was very helpful!

[@jeffreypostma6832]

A wonderful look into your process, and a great end result. Thanks!

[@themusicofmikegoodwin]

Thanks for another great video. More background work please. Love your style and use of light in your paintings.

[@jackhunk1575]

It's very relaxing to see your tutorials and how you made very simple and easy. Lots of love bro thank you for sharing 😍

[@kshamanidhibhardwaj8151]

As usual obsessed with your work!!

[@lt.klutzy]

incredible! Thank you so much for showing us your color picking process was very helpful :D

[@narasimhankrishnaswamy6310]

You are awesome. I just loved every bit of the master touch you gave to the BG. Take care of those precious hands of yours!

[@ofekbatatom]

fav artist of all

[@r_faisal]

that's your art make me excited again to paint background for my self project animation asset. Many thank's to you anyway. Good job.

[@worldsofpivotify]

This is so amazing, your work is always very inspiring, keep it up

[@aylahoepner1197]

Very helpful video. I love your style and your approach to making the piece.

[@_m.a.a.k.i]

I’m in love with your art

[@snofixart]

Oh man this is so inspiring... I can get used to a daily videos!

[@breenalunalives]

I mostly paint characters, but I really want to get into painting environments! I have such a hard time knowing what to do and how to do it, this process was so nice to watch, thank you!

[@blueboy284]

This video is so calming and I'm loving this format!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! Glad to hear it!

[@tommullinerart]

I love your videos, Olaf - truly inspirational. As with so many people, I'd love to make my own feature film one day but budget prevents me from proceeding with it. However, making an animation instead IS doable and you've shown us the way. Thank you. One thing I noticed from this video is how much time is taken sampling/changing the colours of your brushes. An idea that might help people speed up the process a bit more is to create a palette swatch on and an extended area off the side of your canvas - they don't have to be individual colour swatches, they can be ribbons of colour/value that you can sample from using the colour picker tool.

[@amdiata]

The final result is Just crazy

[@ravahkingss449]

Hi there olof sir. It's me from Instagram. It's like you created this lil tutorial for me. I was so happy when I saw this. Now I know the basics of painting. Thanks allot. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ryderchill]

you have no idea how much you helped me with this video seriously this is amazing

[@PhotographyAdventure]

Amazing, as always!

[@StigToon]

I love how it was

[@MrNathanGomez]

Yes I agree strongly-I hate doing backgrounds…but this is a style I’ve long awaited to learn! Thank you for this, it will definitely improve my own process

[@rag035]

Ohh my god I was waiting for this video for very very long time 😌

[@switch9775]

Beautiful Olof! Just *BEAUTIFUL* !!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks!

[@looseboxer]

Looks so beautiful. So talented

[@lovtira6877]

this is really amazing!

[@shravan1018]

This gives me studio Ghibli vibes I am so inspired right now thank you 🔥

[@titanoboaoficial2014]

INSANEEEEE

[@apollon_2509]

that was acctualy really helpful!

[@OokileyGMR]

What an underrated channel, you deserve way more views than this. Keep up the excellent work man, it inspires many artists out there like me ^~^

[@KillerTacos54]

It looks so good!

[@ashitaanimations4005]

your work looks like a photoshop artistic filter, omg it awesome.

[@nourhanmustafa3036]

So great. And helpful thanks

[@JasonCharlesButkiewicz]

Beautiful work man!

[@screwyshawn]

bro this was so good looking forward for more!

[@kalasalad]

nice editing. i really enjoyed how you filmed where you got your inspiration and hearing your thought process.

[@OlofStorm]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@syedatahneat3114]

Beautiful!!😍

[@LuluaHajOmar]

Great video, very nice style

[@krishnabaro6036]

Incredible

[@maticola6609]

Awesome!

[@Jeffdraws19]

This is awesome ❤️❤️ Glad i found you ❤️

[@elidesenha]

thanks for this beautiful video!

[@kristelsouthpark1]

15 to 20 hours HOLY MACARONI

[@whitetulip3963]

I'm not good at painting background but now I really feel inspired to draw and learn about it more! Thanks for your video! :)

[@OlofStorm]

Fantastic! Really happy to hear it!

[@VikStudioz]

Beautiful

[@givenflame1008]

amazing!

[@mr.lonely947]

Good work buddy thanks

[@RocketChild]

Wow, so beautiful! I'm trying to get better at background drawings

[@jebinjames9593]

Awesome man.....

[@multimann2]

Nice one, man Good luck!

[@August-gb4kx]

Wow sir ❤️👍🏿

[@marcdion8444]

Nice work ❤️❤️

[@seolong3326]

Super snyggt, bra jobbat!

[@hoda0]

beautiful 😍👍

[@dasaggropop1244]

my favourite thing to paint is start without any concrete idea and then fill everything with details. clutter. stuff. can be a room, a machine, a castle, forest or a spaceship.doesnt really matter.

[@courtneychross868]

Lovely

[@asvinosigni]

amazing

[@alexlakota3598]

Thank you for the video ^^

[@orpheus6398]

Great vid man! Can you please make a video about painting foliage. U paint them really lovely! Well balanced like the shapes are really amazing! This is like my fifth time here on this video haha

[@nekomaru4548]

Dude, that 4:05 tip looks really helpful, thank you man

[@orpheus6398]

Ey it would we would be really cool if you can make a video about finishing a whole painting. I don't have a problem painting trees or boxes or roofs but I can't paint a whole thing. And another one would be how to find references. Your videos are amazing man!

[@treeghost45]

insbruck ist goated

[@user-yq7pi5up8b]

Very good

[@MyAkikan]

WOW incredible !! i love this artwork ! and your reference picture wasnt used at final ? i was just to keep the moment in mind ? crazy job !!

[@spacekantor]

Hopefully I can draw digital painting as this piece of art.

[@MrSQUADEntertainement]

Nice one dude

[@ginorealubit1450]

can u make more of this! u helped me a lot for developing my process in making BGs

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers! More videos will come eventually! Thanks for the support!

[@idontlikethis980]

what brush are you using when you're doing colors?

[@Aldemir86]

Olof, If I may sugest you can open the color window (F6) and chage it´s mode to HSB will help a lot for choosing your colors. and to text your values faster, you can set Color Prof Setup > Custom > Working Grey and use Ctrl+Y to alternate btwen color and b&w. :D

[@jomelcadiz1295]

I like to paint,anime background.

[@Sri_-T]

My eyes got bounced when you said "15 to 20 hours to Complete This " Damn... I can't paint like this

[@PatrickWerneck_Arts]

❤

[@alcoyjoseph3007]

Nice

[@icom8544]

Great video as always, how much time does it take in total to draw this masterpiece.

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! I mentioned it in the video, but I spent somewhere between 15-20h on it

[@caloyanimation9155]

wow,,

[@rathodmukendra8924]

❤❤❤

[@petergeorgiev134]

I am a huge fan of your environments! Can you please show me how to make a fairy tale one!

[@RicardoBruno9161]

😍

[@goomba478]

This is a fantastic video! I'm curious what resolution or canvas size you work with for a painting like this? I never know where to start with that. Thanks!

[@Cropsus]

What brush do you used in bg designing ps ..........btw love your work ❤❤❤

[@tompollockjr144]

Great painting. Gonna use it as a background in your animated movie?

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! I think this one is just a standalone one.

[@vincentikechukwu7154]

This is awesome. After painting, did u use any of the Photoshop blend mode to achieve a photo realistic image?

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks. Not sure what you mean. This is just painted.

[@vincentikechukwu7154]

@@OlofStorm okay... Perhaps, I didn't pay close attention to the painting process. Thanks for the reply. I've really been learning a lot from your videos.

[@ruderixy5722]

Is their a similar brush u used at the beginning i can download in clip studio assets?

[@tyraniusdelten8207]

Day ummmmm

[@aayushkatoch7323]

Please breakdown *mappa* and *ufotable* animation style please 🙏🏻 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AvocadoInLaw]

I love your art and your content, you're a big inspiration in my artwork actually

[@GrungeVoid]

Png

[@EXPLOSIVEBEAST]

which brush did u used ? can u plz tell ;] and aslo can we download your brushes

[@Inkwell_Enigma]

Вау, это очень годно.

[@savepolarbears7725]

does photoshop have those kinds of brushes already or do i need to get them from somewhere?

[@OlofStorm]

The two I was using here are Dave Grecos brushes. Which you can get from his gumroad for 3 dollars. But you can make your own ps brushes too. And there are many free packs out there I am sure.

[@Fikdo]

what brush do u use? for this kind of thing

[@Perfect_Creation]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❤️ 🇮🇳

[@juujugirlart]

i love environment but im having difficulty

[@pillowzzzbox3466]

Do u have any books I could study on perspective? I’ve look at a lot of tutorials on here and nothing is clicking for me. Just like to make sure my paintings or sketches are not off and give them some depth. Lately I’ve just been free hand because I don’t get ( have never got) that horizon line 1,2,3 point perspective stuff . 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@domenion2]

Could you also share what brush do you usually use and settings on flow, opacity and smoothing ?

[@GrungeVoid]

Just experiment and see what works.

[@werhoppp]

Ого. Вот это свежо

[@Adryn-user]

Ого, русский

[@werhoppp]

@@Adryn-user Да тут только мы и тусим. Россиянцы

[@kikerman1839]

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