@travelercomic Your problem with sketchup is exactly the same with me, it's just looks bad with them. It's great that you and your partner agree to do background by hand since your background in the picture looks good with the characters in it, it meshes well and it's beautiful ^^
@Rhonder Ahahah you pointed out my thought really clearly, I agree with you that sometimes sketchup looks horribly wrong especially if the lineart style isn't clean enough. True! It takes more effort but drawing bgs from scratch guarantee your backgrounds will have the same dynamic lines with your characters! Especially if your lineart is more leaning into dynamic style. Ah so you're an architect! No wonder your backgrounds looks neat and beautiful!
@thekinginthesun I see your point xD I can't imagine with your style using with 3d background, maybe a lil bit weird and the one in the picture is really beautiful and matches well with your characters!
@keii4ii I also have no problem using tools to speed up xD but i have used 3d backgrounds and experiment with it, it still turned out not mixing up well xD Also the learning curve is kinda intimidating at first time xD but i definetely seconded you on how drawing them by hand give some kind of therapeutic feeling, it just feels right. Your background loooks so beautiful man I can totally see that you enjoyed drawing it ^^
@Kura Maybe we all should look into sketchup ahahahahah Yes some webcomics looks really wrong with their character style mixed up in together, but I kinda understand that they just don't have that much time to do background manually anymore. Hence, the word, "stubborn" xD
@A_Toad Drawing natural scene really gives you that nice feelings, I know ^^ and ah agree wiht you I'm also scared using sketchup since I haven't bought it yet, and just using the free version xD The learning curve is intimidating esp to folks who haven't much time to do it in the first place xD
Yes, you really have a great point there, that drawings manually really boost your skill, and it's best to use sketchup etc when youre in deadline like, featured creators.
@Jenny-Toons Ahahahahah me tooo me tooo and I can see that your style will have trouble using 3d backgrounds as well because our linearts style are more dynamic xD Sketchup is just a gift for artistS who have clean, kinda one-width lineart style xD
Tho the most painful phase of doing background is looking up for material that fits the mood in the scene xD
@fnflgbtcomics Wow your style looks very nice and the background complement the characters so well I can't imagine you use 3d background for it, especially caves xD. It's beautiful ^^
@joannekwan XD I know that feeling, setting up models is esp painful if you're not really used to sketchup, it's faster to look at photo references but you can't really set the angle to fit the scene, then again I'm also like that xD