



As for getting a feel for how you can make the visual puzzle your own unique thing, well, the simplest answer is to see more and draw more, I myself spend time going out and sketching environments in the city I live in, and the more you draw and see, the more visual experience you put into your head, and the more you can recognize when or where to put elements to in the background or forground so overall composition is improved. If you're serious in pushing your own environment works, then studies of perspective and real world compositions is a big factor. Also, travelling to exotic places or just browsing through photographs of great cities and their buildings, or scenic environments.





Remember that environment work pulls in things like Architecture, character design, lighting, and other artistic forms as well, it's a visual language you have to learn slowly and through experience. Unlike character work, environment work is a much more inclusive realm of study.

There is no set way on creating background art, although take into account the background, the foreground, and the overall atmosphere when those two combine. Environment design is one huge visual puzzle, and small elements set in the wrong or right place can make the biggest difference. My advice is to never set your starting linework in stone. Keep reworking and rearranging elements in both background and foreground so you can push the composition.