File this under stealing like an artist. My infant daughter gets fussy when it's time to eat, but without pressuring her to eat, she won't gain weight. My wife and I discovered that if we play preschool learning videos for her on our cellphones, the animations distract her enough that she'll seemingly eat without thinking about it. We generally play the same videos over and over so it gives me a lot of time to study the animations. Today I was watching what seemed to be textured gradient backgrounds and was inspired to create the following imitation:
Two art obsessions of mine are creating things that look good quickly and creating things that look good entirely in vector when possible. The image above allowed me to do both. I created two simple gradients, one for the grass and one for the sky each with 5 colors; the grass is linear, the sky radial. I then drew 5 lines on the grass near where each of the 5 colors I chose landed. I matched each line's stroke color to the color in the gradient. I then applied built-in Adobe brushes from the Artistic-Charcoal-Pencil brush library. I repositioned and resized the lines to suit my taste; in this case, I wanted it to blend in with either the lighter or darker color just enough to where the texture of the line could start to be visible. I repeated this process with the sky gradient except that I used my own scatter brush and drew ellipses instead of lines.
To better show the process, I've included the image above of my art board without the cropping. The plain gradients are shown to the left and I overlapped the strokes over the artboard. This whole process could be done in a few minutes and gives me a great foundation for a background. Since it's vector, I can resize the art as large as I want without pixelation which comes in handy in animation programs like Harmony and Flash.
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