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Creating a background to guide the viewer's eye

Creating a background to guide the viewer's eye

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Creating a background to guide the viewer's eye

Now, when I get to an area back here, where I still have grass blades and then I, and it's supposed to be, like, the same grass, and I also have trees, I have to sort of figure out how I can show that, but not exactly the same way because it's, it's a finer kind of textural mark back here. It shouldn't be as large, now even this brush is a little too big, so I'm going to use a, I'm going to use a regular thin brush to pull the color off this to keep the mark, the blade of grass really thin. because it's in a, in the distance. It's also not going to be the same color if I use the same color and the same size mark, it'll flatten the space because it'll deny the believability. This is way back in space. It shouldn't be the same size, intensity of color, and even direction. If I keep going in the same direction with my blades of glass, it will send us right out of the picture. I'm just going to pop a little bit of this, kind of think about the strokes in general, long, lean strokes. And…

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