Drawing Backgrounds
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:57 pm
Pretty broad question but what is your approach to drawing backgrounds? I know there are a million different ways to make backgrounds so I just want to read about the different workflows you guys use, especially if you are combining software.
For my next few cartoons I have in mind I plan on using Clip Studio for the backgrounds, so the very first thing I tripped over was conflicting line weights. I just assumed that each software used their own specific widths but it looks like if you are using the same canvas size in Moho and CSP that the lines and brush sizes will be the same. So yeah, drawing a scene with a brush line width of 12 in CSP doesn't look that awesome when you throw that behind your character you drew with a 6 in Moho... So I learned that one today.
Anyway, what are your tips, tricks and some of the other little obvious pitfalls that you routinely mindful to work around?
Pretty much everything I've made so far was made just to get a laugh out of a few friends so I was never really concerned about where my horizon was or if I stuck to a specified perspective and it shows. I would like to take these next couple a little more seriously so I'm brushing up on some of the basics I should have paid more attention to all along. This book is supposed to be really good and it's available to read or download at the Internet Archives. "Animation Background Layout" by Mike S. Fowler. If you've got some more recommended reading, throw it out there.
https://archive.org/details/animationba ... l/mode/2up
For my next few cartoons I have in mind I plan on using Clip Studio for the backgrounds, so the very first thing I tripped over was conflicting line weights. I just assumed that each software used their own specific widths but it looks like if you are using the same canvas size in Moho and CSP that the lines and brush sizes will be the same. So yeah, drawing a scene with a brush line width of 12 in CSP doesn't look that awesome when you throw that behind your character you drew with a 6 in Moho... So I learned that one today.
Anyway, what are your tips, tricks and some of the other little obvious pitfalls that you routinely mindful to work around?
Pretty much everything I've made so far was made just to get a laugh out of a few friends so I was never really concerned about where my horizon was or if I stuck to a specified perspective and it shows. I would like to take these next couple a little more seriously so I'm brushing up on some of the basics I should have paid more attention to all along. This book is supposed to be really good and it's available to read or download at the Internet Archives. "Animation Background Layout" by Mike S. Fowler. If you've got some more recommended reading, throw it out there.
https://archive.org/details/animationba ... l/mode/2up