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Storytelling in backgrounds (with focus in comics) p.1/3

Added 2025-06-13 17:00:12 +0000 UTC

Hey peeps! Since there won't be any comic pages while I'm wrapping up the mature sheep comic, I went through my achieves and dug out this o

Hey peeps!

Since there won't be any comic pages while I'm wrapping up the mature sheep comic, I went through my achieves and dug out this old tutorial I made back in 2020. Covid was raging and everyone at school was sent home to work from there. I remember sitting on a bed at my sweethearts place while I made this.

Anyway, I've been wanting to share this tutorial for a while now. Something I always notice when reading comics (especially from the furry fandom) is the lack of love for backgrounds... I get it, characters are much more fun to draw, especially for beginner artists but if you decide to make a comic with them and those comics aren't just simple gag of the day? Please, give some love to those backgrounds.

For me it can really ruin a story if the characters look like a million dollars but the backgrounds are just huge empty rooms... And i would so love to help people find the FUN in doing backgrounds! Because it actually can be!

This is what this comic tutorial is about. There's 3 pages so hopefully it'll end the same time the mature sheep illustrations are done. After that I'll take my summerbreak and cook up the next new comic idea for y'all.

I hope you'll find this tutorial helpful, fun or even inspiring!