So I also tried to make sure that the edges of the clouds and the tree do not interact in a confusing way. The foreground and background should be easily identified by the viewer for an illusion of depth and distance. I then started to paint the clouds and I was thinking about how they will peak through the tree. Here I experimented some more with a representation of leaves in bunches to show overall form and purposely avoided drawing every single leaf. Here I used the smudge tool in Procreate to blend some of the clouds together and into the background of the sky. I then added a background (hills on the horizon line in the distance) as well as an indication of where clouds are going to be placed. In this stage, I decided that to achieve a likeness to the Ghibli style I need to place the tree in the context of the surrounding environment. Ghibli Inspired Background – Step 3: Context helps get closer to the heartwarming Ghibli look In this example, the darker the area the further inside the tree it sits, as it is being blocked from the light of the sky. Areas that you will push back and bring forward must be identified early on. Notice in this image that everything that is darker steps back and everything that is lighter steps forward in space. I settled on opaque brushes and later steps used the smudge tool to blend shapes together.Īdded detail, and definition to the tree trunk. In Step 2, I started adding more detail and experimented with a variety of brushes to try to emulate the expressive brushstrokes of Ghibli art. Ghibli Inspired Background – Step 2: Darker shapes recede, brighter shapes step forward You can add mid-tones to the light side at a later time.
Pay attention to the separation of the shadow from the light as it is going to be key to creating depth in a Ghibli style painting.ĭon’t worry about the values in the middle, just separate the entire subject into light and dark sides. Here I blocked in the masses representing the shadow side of the tree and the light side of it. As you will see the painting went through a bit of a transformation as I was evaluating shape and color to echo the beautiful visual notes found in Ghibli works. In this guide, I use many more steps than I probably should, but it is just to make sure everyone can follow along easily. Ghibli Inspired Background – Step 1: Block in masses. Without further ado, let’s look at the steps and go over the things I learned in the process of trying to paint a Ghibli style painting. This tutorial is not about the Ghibli Studio Art process but rather about how I achieved a Ghibli style look in Procreate and what I learned from it. To my knowledge, Ghibli backgrounds are painted in poster color, I, however, painted the demo in this tutorial digitally in Procreate on iPad. Ultimately, I want to believe that we all aspire to make creations uniquely personal to us. The difference here is while simplification and stylization take place, in the case of Ghibli background paintings, simplification is done on a more micro level than the paintings of impressionists, leaving the viewer with much more detail to look at.ĭisclaimer: the goal here is not to copy Ghibli background artists’ works, but to explore their beautiful visuals as a guide and inspiration for the creation of our own work. In fact, I think Ghibli background artists do just that, they paint an impression of their subject matter (something that feels like their subject) instead of painting their subject directly. Here you can see I used artistic liberties to change the time of day, and to try to paint the idea of the tree instead of every single detail in the picture.
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You can download high-res versions of both at the end of this tutorial. Reference picture I took, (left) and final study (right). One day driving from my parents’ house, I saw a scene that would be a great fit for a Ghibli-like landscape painting. Ghibli artwork has been on my mind for a while. Looking through the artwork of Kazuo Oga and other Ghibli background artists, I wondered how exactly do they represent nature in a beautiful, colorful, and serene style. In this tutorial, I decided to take a break from drawing the human figure and push myself out of my comfort zone to draw a small landscape in the spirit of Studio Ghibli backgrounds. Gvaat’s Ghibli-like Background style landscape study
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