How important are backgrounds to you? Readers and Creators! :sunrise_over_mountains:

[allenT]

Yeah it's important to me, I enjoy beautiful fantasy backgrounds.

The backgrounds have to look as/more realistic than the characters so readers can believe the characters are in the environments. (most mangas do that too)

I also care about the consistency of my story's locations. Because my story only covers a few places, therefore I can bring more care & attentions into the BGs especially recurring places. For consistency I made a psychical model of the story village for reference (even though it's not very nicely built it helped a lot for a few big panels I drew)

(currently working on many backgrounds on my upcoming chapter )

[susutaru]

Oh a good Background is essential to tell the story and to give the reader a point of view where the story plays.

I drew most of them myself in the past. (It took forever!) But since a lot of story plays in vatican and Zeros Castle I use a lot the 3D Assets of Clip Studio Paint and sometimes also Fotos which I revise (Also, I need to learn how I can create such a Background for myself, so that I can create there Zeros throne room.)

Also in little Panels I always try to put at least a Wall or some trees so that the reader knows exactly where the characters are.

[jmhenry]

I mean, I'm just plain obsessed with drawing them, lol But at least to me, they're very important for getting readers to get a feel of the world you're illustrating. For LOSTLAND, I put a lot of emphasis on getting backgrounds done cause I want people to explore this crazy, post apoc world in almost the same way my characters do: taking in the beauty and danger of the world, as we get to know more and more about it

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[Shanny8]

I feel like me learning to do backgrounds has improved my comic making work all around...you dont have to do backgrounds in every panel, but it does establish a certain continuity if you hit 3 panels out of a 6 panel page.

This is a few of my background pages from my webcomic, Ray Thunder

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[AmysGames]

I'll be the resident contrarian and say that I really don't enjoy drawing backgrounds all that much, lol. I've gotten a lot of mileage from keeping them minimalist enough to establish the scenery without having to draw all of the details, which I think is good enough for most cases.

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[rasteranime]

As reader I like looking at detailed backgrounds, I think it has own weightage in story telling... as creator I am still learning to draw in different perspectives... and I've drawn some simple backgrounds like these, for now ...

[ThunderChicken]

Backgrounds do not make or break a comic for me (I grew up reading newspaper comics, which had very little detail), but I certainly do appreciate good backgrounds when I see them, and whenever I draw something I tend to do detailed backgrounds. @jwabeasley's, @allenT's, and @SeniArseni's backgrounds impress the hell out of me

[Krysteena]

The first is me making the background this was a piece I really wanted to look a specific way.

Where as the other I am guilty of getting a free back ground a playing around with it...I hope that's okay lol, I it's free so far gave right?

• No Ai...!

[jwabeasley]

That's high praise! Thank you!

[jwabeasley]

Your backgrounds always inspire me, @allenT! Have you made a physical model for the pagoda, too?

I mean, I think the fact that I build an entire village in Blender as background reference says more than enough about how important backgrounds are to me

I like how you did yours! All the trees are so uniformly stylized! I use 3D renders in my process as well.

[wolflu66]

I love drawing scenery, natural landscapes like mountains and rivers. But I absolutely hate drawing man-made structures—they're a total hassle.

[skullforceagents]

I take my time with backgrounds, especially when establishing a scene. But I often also just use gradient and color effects depending on the situation. I wouldn’t say my backgrounds are particularly sophisticated though.

[allenT]

Right now for the exterior I don't find a need to make one yet, but I do hope to work on something for the interiors in the future, physical or just drawing references. Thank you!

[theyrebothakilogram]

I think that backgrounds are super important so most of my scenes have a 3d model! With the amount of time that I spend making the models and then editing the models in post I should probably just draw the backgrounds, but unfortunately it's WAY more fun for me to make the models it's like playing the sims, I enjoy it a lot!

[animamundisoulworld]

It highly depends how often the room or place is used. 3d even as a reference is incredibly helpful. Sometimes haveing 3d can make you want to use that location in more panels haveing the place feeling ever more present.

[NutshellComics]

Absolutley agreed! Backgrounds schould be made the same way as everything else, 3d or filtered photographs are cheating when done with traditional drawn comics. as much as i ADORE avatar: the last airbender i never liked the 3d models they used for machinery.
I love your castle, btw, nice angle!!

[NutshellComics]

Interesting. A well done establishing shot can do a lot! And not every story needs highly immersive backgrounds.

[NutshellComics]

Thank you so much!! Compliments for my backgrounds matter a lot to me.
I hope i you'll give my story a shot. Prepare for a slightly kryptic prologue though. i want to change that a little to make it clearer, but a soon as Flint and Kelvin enter the stage it becomes a relatively straight forward adventure story.
Link again for your convenience

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[NutshellComics]

I like how you do trees and foliage!
And I think it's a very intelligent to do it that way. if a story doesn't emphasize on the world around it so much, it's better to spare some time.
For my story it's exactly that, what you said at the end. the worldbuilding is crucial, therefore the backgrounds have to immerese the reader as much as possible in my world. But that decision came from my desire to draw detail backgrounds. so it's actually the other way around in my case. My desire led me to do a story about worlds. but story and background effort fits nonetheless

[NutshellComics]

totally agreed!
Love the colors and composition of the first artwork!