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endomentendo · 10 days

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Kinda weird question, but can you teach me drawing backgrounds? 👉👈🥺

I’m not the best person to ask when it comes to drawing backgrounds…

BUUUUUT!

I can give some tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years.

so when drawing backgrounds, what you need to know is what they’re used for. Not just for a place for characters to move around, but what feeling they give.

take for example of arcane, the city the show takes place gives a sense of wealth, prosperity, and upper class.

While in the depths of the under city, feelings of safety and security leaves as the colors mute and dull in color. Showing how the lower class is seen and acts. which also goes along with describing some world building, like how they live, what’s the streets like, etc. give the feeling you want for the story and world.

Decorating the layout can even show what to know of your character, are they ambitious and an artist: their home might look like a mess or organized.

Speaking about layouts, you should also keep in mind where the focus should be depending on the scene.

Here is a better explanation on how to do it. Guide your audience’s eyes towards where you want them. Not need necessarily, want is what you’re looking for.

Items or lighting and color can help you in what you want your audience to look at. Especially for animation related backgrounds.

which now ties to what’s important to note, perspective and space.

Take a look at how storyboards work with backgrounds, they follow perspective and spacing. This is a little tricky to understand, but what helps me is just make it rough enough to not overwhelm you, but accurate to where the guideline is. Don’t worry on the details, focus on the guide lines, simple and easy to follow.

also not that you shouldn’t always follow perspective if it will mess with the scene.

Don’t make things flat, 2d isn’t real in real life, there are hills and low slopes.

Mess with where the camera is placed and follow its view point.

Another thing to note is to not make the background become the takeaway. They’re just a place for your characters to walk and talk in. Unless they live in a empty vacuum.

Mike Mignola is a great example for simple, yet effective, background art. His perspective can be off, or they can fade out, or they can be simple that a three year old can easily trace. But it works because it doesn’t drive away the focus which is the character.

comics like BONE by Jeff smith, can be simple yet atmospheric at the same time. You can be detailed if the scene needs it for cinematic effect, but mostly you will have a blank back space with the details becoming more complex the closer it gets.

if you want detailed backgrounds, then save it for illustration or painting. If it’s comics or animation, simplicity with that flare of personality is needed. Don’t overwhelm yourself.

but don’t listen to my advice, if you want real professionals: watch Bam animation on backgrounds.

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glad I can at least help. Stay strong compadre.

#Animation #background #art tips #art advice #storyboard #gravity falls #arcane #101 dalmatians #Bone Jeff smith #Hellboy #hoo boy am I tired

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storekn1fe · 7 months

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reread jeff smith's bone a while ago, here's some thorn! [id in alt]

#thorn harvestar #bone #jeff smith's bone #bone jeff smith #bone comic #fiona draws #described #hi to all 5 bone fans out there

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lyraspace · 9 months

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#bone comic #jeff smith bone #bone jeff smith #ted #meme #get stick bugged lol #bone #ted the bug

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comicalbum · 9 months

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Drew this cause Jeff Smith followed me back on threads

#BONE #bone comic #bone jeff smith #My Art #it was probably by accident but I still got starstruck when I saw the notification

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lesorg · 1 year

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Lost

#fone bone #smiley bone #thorn harvestar #bone jeff smith #fanart

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bonefanzine · 1 year

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Applications for our next Bone Fanzine are now open!!

After such a successful interest check, we’re finally ready to announce the theme and title for our next zine project!!

Our next zine is titled Seasons of the Valley: A Bone Fanzine!!

The book will be a celebration of the seasons, where artists and writers come together to make pieces that are themed after life in the valley during the four seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter!! Your submissions can range from anything, like our favorite Bone cousins walking through the spring forest or simply a beautiful background environment piece of a valley location! But they must have a clear seasonal theming, highlighting life within the valley during a season.

Applications for acceptance into the project open up NOW and close on May 31st, 11:59PM PST, so make sure you get yours in as soon as possible if you’re interested; time flies!!

Applications: https://forms.gle/BVMPE5yht338Dtag7

Rules and Information Document: Rules and Information Document

Our first Bone fanzine went remarkably well, and we’re hoping to make its follow up bigger and better!! We on the team are all really excited for this project and we can’t wait to get it going!! Please share the project with any artist or writer you think may be interested, we’re going to shoot for the moon!!

Also, included above is a look at the updated Twitter wallpaper art for this new zine, illustrated and colored by the amazing @espeon9891!! And here’s a new Fone Bone pfp drawn by @galacticgoober!!

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leowtoons · 5 months

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Just a quick comic I made not too long ago. Basically, I saw that one scene from My Adventures with Superman and couldn’t help but make a Bone version

#bone #bonecomic #jeffsmithbone #myadventureswithsuperman

#artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #cartoonistsofinstagram #myart #procreateart #digitalart #doodle

#bone comic fan art #jeff smith bone #bone comic #artists on tumblr #cartoonists on tumblr #procreate art #bone jeff smith #my adventures with superman #fone bone #thorn harvestar #my art #procreate

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thegoodduckfan · 5 months

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I recently read Bone by Jeff Smith and I gotta say the 3 main bone mirroring Disney characters is really fun, though they do not mirror the main 3 imo

I think Fone Bone is Donald Duck, Phoney is Scrooge and Smiley is Goofy.

Does anyoje agree or is it just me?

#bone jeff smith #bone #uncle scrooge #carl barks #donald duck #goofy goof #fone bone #phoney bone #smiley bone #comics #comic books

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dakotabone1213 · 11 months

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Some old Bone artwork because why not?

#phoney bone #cartoon #fone bone #smiley bone #Bone comics #My art #comic books #Bone jeff smith #I dunno

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pedanticat · 2 years

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I swear. every time it seems like animation is FINALLY starting to be treated with more respect, crap like this happens and I hate it SO much! Earlier this year there was the fiasco with Netflix and now it's this nonsense with Warner Bros Discovery!