What is Stylized Background

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This is the process to simplify the background animation process to look more cartoonish. In this illustration I will choose to use small plants as an example because I want to show how simple this process can be.

Step 1:

The first normal step that I take is to create an empty black shape to form an object. It looks like a small plant. I will use flat brush, lasso tools and eraser.

Step 2:

From the black shape I will include colour to get the right colour feel. In this process I will use the right gradient tool to see which colour is suitable for each plant.

Step 3:

In this process I will use a flat brush to form layers of leaves with simple shapes/ I will then form each leaf and stylize the leaves to make it look more cartoonish.

Step 4 :

I will detail the ocation of each leaf where the process of the front leaf is given priority.

Step 5:

This is the last process where I will detail it again from all angles by including grass to get a full picture and use the plant as a library for the background process later on.

Here I include 3 sample background that I have specifically created and I have utilised the library of the plants that I have created.

This is from me, @aurah...hope it helps in your journey to be a digital artist.