Episode 484 - Background styles

Backgrounds are part of a choice you make about to best show off your characters and how to present your comic. Plain white backgrounds aren't a very good choice for most comics but they are for some. Random, sketchy lines, pixel art tiles, fully drawn highly detailed landscapes, copy and pasted photos, halftone dots, speedlines etc, the choices are endless but it's important to know what works for you own particular comic! That's what we're talking about this week. Yes, an actual ART based subject on a webcomic site, who'd a guessed?

What kind of background do you have for YOUR webcomic and why did you choose that style? What background style do you like to see in comics? And would you like to hear me talk about perspective?

The musical feature this week that Gunwallace has given us is theme to Barkham Horror: plucking and strumming guitar sounds and echoing percussion suggest a creeping, sneaking, exploring investigator in a dark, dusty old house, sidling from room to room, peering into dark, spiderwebbed corners…


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Featured comic:
LWBiverse - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/jun/18/what-to-do-when-you-think-youve-outgrown-your-comic/

Featured music:
Barkham Horror - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Barkham_Horror/, by Scott D, rated E.

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/