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Published: 2012-07-18 00:22:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1978; Favourites: 85; Downloads: 34
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Rain only comes to Aheya three months out of the entire year, making life for the native population extremely meager. As nomadic pastoralists, they drive their herds for miles and depend on them for every aspect of life. When the rainy season finally arrives, all the Aheyan tribes reunite and celebrate at the source.Environments are so hard
Gonna try to practice and upload lotsa landscape concepts.
If you're interested in seeing more concept art for ~Spatty and my project, head this way ~
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jk, flipped the entire background~
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What a nice concept.
I especially like the colours of which you used.
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Thank you very much! I'm glad you like the concept, and the colors
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O-oh, well... I didn't expect that question
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Oh boy, I love the layers of different colors communicating distance, clever!
And the pic itself it's quite the eye candy to look at, love the field and hot like vibe it gives! 
Nice back story, rain seem to be quite important for the Aheyan people, and yes environments are hard!
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Hey thanks! It's awesome that you looked at this with an objective eye to tell what I was doing with the layers 
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i love the scene and how you played with colours.
is aheya a place you made up? it sounds so very lovely, and unique. i love the part where they come to celebrate, sounds like a very nice culture.
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Thank you 
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awesum!
I hate drawing backgrounds too, it's so bigXP but pretty if u pull it off
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Haha, actually I love doing backgrounds, I just hate finalizing/cleaning them up... takes so long
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Looks really great, and YES, these things are HARD to draw... Ugh. I hate bg's... they are my WORST thing.
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Thanks! Yeah, I'm bad at environments cuz I tend to zoom in way too much, so then I usually create something boring =/ Why are you bad at them?
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Well, I don't seem to have any sense for it. I'm never sure what should go into one, how to do the layout, how to keep it from just being a bowl of copypasta (except I mostly draw on paper, so the repetition get SUPER tedious)... basically, I just don't know what to put in a background.
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My best advice is to look at tons of landscapes, tons, and usually of the speed-painting variety. I didn't even know where to start, I always have like 20 reference images up while I'm trying to come up with a landscape.
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Yeah, that does sound good, I'll definitely have to do that. The whole thing just baffles me, and I don't even really know why. Lack of practice wouldn't begin to cover it either, I've only ever even drawn backgrounds four times in my life that I can think of, and I think they're all on here.
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Haha I know what you mean. The thing about landscapes is compared with drawing just plain ol characters, they're really boring to do, so most people don't get much practice on them...
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Oh, MAN is that the truth. I've actually been forcing myself to do a landscape of a sort of modern/realistic green hill. It's been very difficult, but it's turning our good so far. [link] Though, speed paint it ain't... I'm not even halfway, and I'm going on a month now...
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Oh wow, that's quite a project there!
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It is indeed, but it's a great learning experience!
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The colors in this are absolutely beautiful! It has a great sense of depth -- it really feels like those hills are very far away. And I love the story behind it as well.
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Getting the atmospheric perspective to look right for those hills in the distance certainly was a challenge, but I'm glad it comes across well! Thank you very much, I'm happy you enjoy!
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Oh wow, I love your color pallet and usage of it here, nicely done
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Thanks! It was tough coming up with a combo that worked, but I think this'll do
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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy them
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continue youre this style
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That's something I can definitely promise!
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Oh my it's ... epic! (I can use this word this time right? ^^')
I love everything here, it's so uh klsdjlksd so terrific! 
oh and only three rainy months? D: yeah, talking about hard nomadic life :c
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Thanks! Really glad it feels so warm to you
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^__^ You're so much welcome! C:
ah yeah that's what I meant to say!
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Aheya looks awesome! It would be awful to live without rain for 6 months DX The other three months must be bliss!
The colors look bright and vivid. They give off a cheerful feeling
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Very true!
Glad they do! I really wanted to create a place that was cheery looking, without automatically making it a cute, green, lush place.
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Yeah I think you did a really good job showing the cheerful side of the dry area
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Haha, thanks 
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Thanks, glad you're liking it!
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This is wonderful! I love the different colors, the landscape, the gigantic rocks, the shading of the hills, and how the colors fade the farther you go into the background!
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Ah, glad you like so many elements in this! The colors fading is called atmospheric perspective, where things get bluer as they recede into the distance, and it took me forever to figure it out here
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