I finished a new background for my client Brian’s visual novel this week – an unremarkable storeroom somewhere deep in the castle.

Herbs hanging up to dry are probably some of my favorite fantasy setting props to add to backgrounds.  They’re an easy way to add some color and texture to a scene.  They make sense in a lot of different environments too – storerooms, kitchens, apothecaries, healers’ and mages’ laboratories…