Aw thank you so much!

And biggest tip for backgrounds- study real life. And dont be afraid to use color picker tools for practicing purposes. I was really afraid of backgrounds for the longest time, and while this isnt really a good example of my work with them, and I still have a LONG ways to go- try tracing and painting over real images to kinda figure out the flow and the feeling. As soon as you get that muscle memory going with "Hey, that wasnt so bad" you can start doing them for real on your own. Trust yourself!