Monster with background
Fantasy creature with mountain background. Digital painting done with photoshop. Ulla Hennig January 2013
For a long time I had been neglecting the backgrounds in my paintings and drawings. Backgrounds take time, and quite often I hadn’t spent a thought on the environment in which I placed my creatures.
But it makes a difference, and now that I know it, I try to practise creating meaningful environments for my characters. This here was done with quite a number of these useful photoshop tools like the smudge tool, various brushes with varying settings of opacity. And I tried to stick to my layers…
