>>6009642Unironically just a lot of detail and not the best value structure. You can find old videos of people that used to do art like this and usually they'd be 5 hours in before the linework was done. By the time they were finished they got overly attached.
Backgrounds you're better off doing master studies of western landscape artists since most of their heavy lifting is from values. All of the work is done for you in terms of abstracting the environment. Once you get an okay handle on values just jump straight into color studies of masters since once again the heavy lifting is done for you. Even if you aren't taking notes and stuff like you should, your brain will pick up on certain things albeit at a slower pace.
Once you get comfortable with values and slightly more comfortable with color, try copying photos while reading landscape theory. Unlike anatomy it's a bit more wishy washy but there's some fundamental rules to landscapes that usually hold true. Stuff like skies are light, sky zeniths etc.
I think a lot of people get super hung up on thinking they can't do landscapes because the skill set is so different than drawing characters. You're effectively starting near zero if you don't know how to paint them and it frustrates people who perceive themselves as good character artists.
Values and colors from masters.
Values and colors from ref.
Individual elements like bushes, clouds etc.
Values and colors from reference again
Imaginative piece
Start again from the top and repeat until you get gud or die except this time try and study artists you like rather than the typical western landscape masters
