Can’t Draw Manga Backgrounds? Here’s how! Basic Manga Background Tutorial

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0:00 Intro
1:44 Backgrounds Are Part of the Story
3:15 Learn How to Draw in Perspective
5:37 Let's Practice Perspective
6:52 One-Point Perspective
8:06 Two-Point Perspective
8:40 Three-Point & Multi-Point Perspectives
9:26 Drawing Basic Shapes
12:22 Study & Copy Your Favorite Scenes

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[savvysod]

Backgrounds scares me as an artist because I barely draw the characters properly now adding backgrounds just made it more difficult, but this is really helpful!

[grimsonforce]

I give this props I at first I thought it would be some tutorial about cheaping out by using blender and other 3D assets. Yet instead I was surprised to see a back to basics approach. People seem to focus on their OC's but forget that backgrounds are characters too! Each building, street, layout, tree, plant, flower, cars, mountain is a character with it's own unique story and personality. It's a part of world building. Anyway good to see people using perspective and studying building blocks and actually drawing rather than tracing. Great video!

[Raulc]

Heres my tip . The closer the object the more detail the further the less to make this easier

[theawesomecatmom]

I love world building and environment design but drawing backgrounds has always been a pain for me. This has helped so much! Thank you!

[artofflife]

i like listening to your voice while i'm drawing manga or just drawing

[ihsangumilar]

For perspective i also recommend to study object tilting. Use the same horizon but you tilt the vanishing point. Imagine a street with a lot of car parked on the side of the road, but there is one car moving out from the parking lane.

[testoftimegaming]

Quick tip that most will scoff at .... If your story is based on a place you can go to or can get photos of use to place everything... Like dont hard trace them that will look odd but make simple versions of everything and just drop your character in (assuming your doing digital) saves a ton of time

[UltimatePerfection]

My process is that I first model and render backgrounds in Blender and then just trace them to make it fit my art style. That way I don't have to deal with perspective (unless I need to do foreshortening on the character itself).

[Johuku]

Im sure you hear this a lot but thank you for these awesome tips you post. With every tip, i feel i come a little closer to making the story idea inside my head a reality one day. And backgrounds are definitely an achilles heel for me that i am gonna try to work on.

[Skyeleafe]

I got 3/3

Also, this is why I started practicing perspective since a lot of my drawings are flat and 2D.

I do believe that once you get a hang of perspective, drawing backgrounds won't be a pain. They'll actually be fun to draw. That's just me though

[AmenallahMazhoud]

Bruh, i would be drawing GOD-LIKE concepts if i had the skill to draw backgrounds😭😭

[Lycoris]

this is so helpful and makes it simple- thankyou

[pabgerdie]

In my first one shot manga, which took me a month to complete only the production part, as I didn’t understand perspective, I used 3D models of the backgrounds I needed, and while I eventually could finish it and feel like I did well overall, maybe the fact that I didn’t understand perspective well led to some perspective errors by myself. So now I've been learning perspective specially to improve the bodies I draw, and despite in my big manga project I'm still going to use 3D models for backgrounds in order to save time, now I feel like I'll do better next time, and hopefully faster.

[zamabdurajak]

luckily I have a degree in architecture so background and bldgs are no problem to me ahaha

[Mangabruhhh]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU.
this is the best channel for manga I have found yet . Just found you yesterday and I LOVE .Just what I was looking for, it your videos are super helpful and fun and easy to watch . So . THANK YOU! Keep it up !

[WalidBattas]

For the guessing of where the horizon line is, i got it right for the first two images but got it wrong for the last image !!😂 I didn't know that a horizon line could be outside the frame tho

[meshkiari]

As I watch this... the perspective lesson is already in my other tab

[xenonn]

i came here to understand how to come up with ideas of manga backgrounds

[RukileinchenChan]

I started art seriously with the intent of doing environment concept art for games, especially backgrounds. This helped me so much with my understanding of perspective and drawing things aside from humans or animals and I especially love drawing+designing props or interiors! But I am having a hard time putting characters into scenes, they look very stiff but that might be because I have avoided getting better at dawing figures for a long time. Do you have any recommendations for drawing scenes with characters or ressources for that? I would appreciate a video too, though... :D

I especially love the background techniques and images of Inio Asano, Kentarô Miura, Yana Toboso or Naoki Urasawa!

Keep going <3