Background work

Second semester we started having animation backgrounds and layout lectures. We learned different techniques with both colours and black and white, what different effects it can have and simple rules to make the best backgrounds.

The first picture is an exterior layout of a castle, drawn with charcoal. Here the challange was to deside where the light source was, and use as few tones as possible. 
The second picture is an interior background with one light source, drawn with pastils. I'm pretty pleased with this one, and had a lot of fun with it. I like how I didn't need to draw the whole chair, just highlight where the light would hit the surface, but you can still see that it's a chair. 

These lectures give me a lot inspiration to do more backgrounds and explore more with colours and different combination.