decided the best way to keep boning up on anime bgs properly is to do a bunch of random material studies … like wood (new/rotten/night), stone (same), metal, etc. to build up the mental library / muscle memory of textures i’ve done … (also to label which brushes are the best at what lol, i’m going into this blind)

successful to varying degrees here… was NOT expecting to nail the wood as much as i did.