Sketch of background (first sketch of background ever). According to the pastel pictures I've been looking at, I'm guess I'm going to have to erase the flowers and do them as a finishing touch...
PS - I am still a scanning/Photoshop noob, so excuse the fugly scans for now. twofacedkitsune just kindly told me about the curve tool.
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Attempts at painting the sky with pastels, numbered in order. Trying to figure out how to get the same effect from the meadow picture!!! I noticed that the thickness/darkness of the pastel really comes out in scanning, so I'll take care to do it in better lighting: