Drawing Cityscapes

[Saint01]

This is for my fellow artist who excel at drawing backgrounds, scenery, and as the title says, cityscapes.

What is your process?

How do you go about coming up with and creating each building, their size, spacing, colors, shadows, reflections, what brushes and tools do you use and/or recommend, etc.

And to get more specific. How would one go about drawing futuristic/dystopian cityscapes?

Ex:

Lastly, what would be a good place for someone at a beginner-intermediate level when it comes to drawing scenery to start with the process of improving?

For context, I have a tone of experience drawing people due to that being the primary thing I draw, so while I'm fairly decent (though with room still for improvement in some areas) other things such as scenery, animals, vehicles, etc. i find are much more difficult for me to draw and often the quality of work I am able to produce when it comes to those things versus drawing people leaves much to be desired.

The main area I struggle with is perspective (chalked up to me not taking the proper time to practice perspective outside of art class in the past) and getting the proper sizing and spacing for my structures.

[feuersichel]

This thread actually has a ton of good information about perspective: https://forums.tapas.io/t/i-have-a-dilemma-going-on-now-newbie-to-perspective-may-kick-my-comic-to-a-later-release-date/67404/7

Other than that, go and visit cities and take your sketchbook with you suck in as much details as you can. like, that door looks fancy? draw it. grow your artist library in your brain. So later, even when you want to draw in a more futuristic setting, you still have your basics to draw from and adapt.

My backgrounds are in a older style but it still applies. Beforehand I visited a lot of old towns to build up my library. Then when it comes to actually draw pages, I plan on how I want the scene to look like (dramatic perspective or more neutral etc. ) then I set the horizon line and just start drawing. In my case I don't really plan out that much as I love to come up with stuff on the way (like, adding a bridge over there, or a latern etc.). Your perspective and horizontal-line should be set though.

On the immage bellow I really wantet to push the impression of a big city as one of my characters isn't used to it, so I used the fisheye effect. (There are no speech-bubbles in jet).

[system]

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