Totoro Backgrounds

Wow! After what's been a busy nightmare of a week. Its done for the moment. So inbetween that busy busy time, I decided to tackle a fantasy nature kind of theme for my next digital paint.. I've always been and still am fascinated with nature. Especially, stuff like moss,  lichen, and mushrooms. This stuff is just amazing to see in real life. And to see somebody paint it as well as Kazuo Oga is just breathtaking. If you don't know who Kazuo Oga is just check out the anime, My Neighbor Totoro. He basically did all the backgrounds for that movie and some other Ghibli favorites. 


I can only attempt to emulate here. For the moment, this is where I'm at. I thought this particular painting has all the elements  that I favor. You've got a background and a foreground such as the hill on the left. And then on top of that many composited elements such as the ferns to the right and some flowers I'll be adding later on this weekend hopefully.  And the colors here are absolutely the kind of greens I rave for: lush, bright and saturated.