What a charming, cute crooked-neck dragon and OH LOOK IT'S THE TEAPOT AAAAH

I'm really loving how I can tell it's a library in the background with the golden book silhouettes. I'd really love to learn how to do that; capture the essence of a background without putting a million years into it until pictures aren't fun for me anymore! ;u;

This isn't even the worst thing I've drawn Mrs. Potts in... I had a doodle on the animation board of her and Red from ADGTH 2 (played by George Hearn, the original Sweeney Todd) doing "Worst Pies in London." Fun fact: Angela Lansbury says the choreography for that song (endless off-beat motions of stamping bugs and making pies) was the hardest thing she ever had to perform.

I wish I had better advice, but I will say that I get a strange pleasure from drawing things that people aren't going to look at, but register. I say it fucks the corners of your eyes. In general, soft shapes and a pleasant color theory and some clear values will carry you through the vaguest of backgrounds!
And just give yourself assignments! Take a pine sauna interior. Warm colors in murky light, soft sanded edges on the wood. That'll mean a big fuzzy brush and just painting a row of vertical lines of some flesh-earth tone (like, a bit of white, part yellow ochre, part burnt sienna and a pinch of cerulean to neutralize it) over black with a thick brush. Think as simple as you can possibly get - imagine a texture, imagine how the light hits that texture, and think about temperature and sensation of the area. It'll come to you as long as you think, and I wish you luck!
And don't make it "not fun." Ever. Really, the way to make any background look good is to a) make them a part of the character's environment, so you can conceive of how far forward or back anything is, and b) a sensitive scale and arrangement of value. Squint your eyes, shine a red light, or digitally put it in grayscale - you can see easily what your value scale looks like and what looks vague or strange.

oh wow this looks so great!!!!!!!!!!! it's so sharp and full of life. looks like he was caught unawares by someone coming into his library

I'd imagine the "Hi there!" at the beginning of Peter Gabriel's "Big Time."

LOVE THIS AUGH

Tea in a Chicago mug, why wouldn't you love this <3
It's ironic, because I'm Irish, but I've never really understood Orange to be a "flag color," so the New York flag doesn't even feel real to me.

I recognized it as the Chicago flag. :3
There's so much to love about this.
I think my favorite thing besides the wisps of smoke is just how soft and squishy the dragon looks. That body type is adorable, and it feels super appropriate for a snuggly reading buddy~<3
Plus those tiny vestigial wings are hilarious X3

Contrast of size - I'm still working on getting my proportions comically and dramatically dissimilar. Wish me luck!

Only the best of it!!

Really lovely. =)

Dankeschon!