So sometimes I spend a whole lotta time drawing backgrounds, only for them to get covered up almost entirely by characters. I mean, I know what parts are gonna get covered up, since I blue-pencil everything down before starting to ink, but I try to draw the complete background anyway, on its own layer. Hey, y’never know when I’ll be able to use it again! (Or use it to make a blog post.) And it’s much easier to reuse backgrounds if you don’t have to fill in people-shaped holes with the edges of trees or windows or whatever.
Regardless, this is what it looks behind our heroes in today’s strip. There’s four people standing in a row in most of the wide shots, so of course you can’t see much of it! But here it is for posterity.
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I confess I really like the outside backgrounds.
From the night before, at the park and amazi-girl, to here in…wherever they are.
They seem so lively and artsy. But I guess it’s the distinct drawing of the entire comic, so… 😀
I really enjoy your backgrounds. They’re really nice and detailed, and tend to suit the mood amazingly well. Take your time on them, I can wait for comics if it means seeing more great imagery.
Its a good principle to keep all your assets.
Not only for re-use, but one day you might have your comics in a funky system where people can peal back the layers to see how the artwork was constructed.