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Should I keep adding shades to all the backgrounds? (Patreon)

Published:
2023-08-08 06:15:43
Imported:
2026-06

Poll

Should I keep adding shades to all the backgrounds?

  • Remove them all 7
  • Keep adding to all of them 16
  • Just do some 269
  • 2023-08-08
  • 292 votes
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Content

It takes more time than I thought

Comments

PunkRaider

I think just a lil bit is fine. Simplicity can be a boon on its own

Hydelon

I think it adds an appreciable amount of detail, but maybe you could dial it back to scenes where not much is going on. You can focus on the foreground more when it gets "exciting", since people's attention will... well, be elsewhere.

Silver Kodiak

If you use a program maybe you can script part of the process to speed up things. It's not cheating just help you do background things faster in order to focus on the subjects. You should be able to achieve the same results with mask.

Esker Wolfpaw

Your backgrounds are awesome, so don’t get rid of them entirely. If it feels like too much, just do some.

Jake

I think that the shading adds a nice amount of depth but you could probably get away with only using it in a few panels, and just go with a simpler background in most cases.

HyPerRifiC

I think for a first pass of the comic, meet your deadlines than going to the utmost quality possible, when you do a print version you can go back and enhance or redraw panels

coffeecat

Your BGs are fantastic and less shading will not make them shine any less. No need to break your back working on them ♥

Leaf Dubois

It's your creation and I hope you do whatever makes you happy. I'm also a webcomic creator. I took some shortcuts in my comic's original releases. Now 20Y later I am remastering it and re-releasing it with everything held to a higher standard. It is definitely more work this way than doing it "right" the first time. But also I don't think I had the same skills and perspective the first time around so it's a tradeoff.

Scotty

The textured hatching? Overlay? Is there a word for it? I like it.