you're welcome 
while your digital art as improved a lot over the years too, i still like your traditional art best. yeah, i can relate to backgrounds, back i used to draw traditionally backgrounds would always become a nightmare for me, especially when i drew stuff in colored pencil. but glad you were able to get past the struggle and create some decent backgrounds.
while your digital art as improved a lot over the years too, i still like your traditional art best. yeah, i can relate to backgrounds, back i used to draw traditionally backgrounds would always become a nightmare for me, especially when i drew stuff in colored pencil. but glad you were able to get past the struggle and create some decent backgrounds. 
I think the worst part with backgrounds is using up ALL your coloured pencils on them lol! They take a lot of colour, which is why I do minimal or even linework backgrounds (I did a pic of my friend and did the background in coloured fine liners instead of coloured pencils, keeping it to linework with some detail) because it helps save the colours lol! My digital ones are getting better too, I have the hang of drawing them out traditionally and just making them digital. SAI is a big help to me.
yep, so very true, more detailed backgrounds require using a lot more colors and if you mess up the color even a little bit your kind of screwed, reason why i tend to be minimalist with my backgrounds too. yeah, glad that you found a digital painting program that works best for you to improve your art.
Exactly. Digital is more forgiving in that way than traditional. Also I cheat a little and darken/lighten the whole thing which means I can colour normally and then put the lighting in after, which you can't do with traditional.
yeah, so true, which is the reason i do my art mostly all digital, it's just so much easier for me, if i mess something up i can just undo it and easily change the lighting to lighter or darker if i want too, but i still admire those that can do traditional art well.
Indeed, digital is more forgiving. I'm getting better with light and shade in traditional though.
yeah, that is good too.