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[Koh]

You and I are in the same boat of needing to practice drawing panorama. One of the useful tips I can give you, though, is that the panorama furthest in the back should be closer to the color of the sky. Here's how I handle that:

First, make your shades and such for the panorama like normal. Afterwards, grab the color of your sky and look at the RGB values. What you want to do is make the RGB values of your panorama colors closer to the colors of your sky. You can use the easiest approach, and do it in quarters, for four-layer panorama.

The fore-most layer is the stuff that everything that's part of the gameplay is on; they are 0% closer to the sky color.

The next layer is some simple panorama like tall grass or trees in the background, and they are 25% closer to the sky color (Take the difference between the RGB values here and the RGB values of the sky color, divide by 4, and round to the nearest multiple of 8. You subtract or add the result of all that to the RGB values of the colors you're making closer to the sky color's RGB values.).

The next layer is stuff that would be behind the trees, like further trees or hills, and they are 50% closer to the sky color (same step as above, but divide by 2, rounding to the nearest multiple of 8).

The next-to-last layer is reaaally far back stuff, like mountains, and they are 75% closer to the sky color (Same initial difference between values method, but multiply by 0.75).

And then the final layer is the sky color itself.

This is old, but all of that will net you something that looks like this: