Episode 484 - Background styles
Jun 22, 2020
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?
Topics and Show Notes
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/
Ozoneocean at 9:06PM, June 24, 2020
Glad you like it man! He does such a great job at composing them ☺️
Scott D at 6:27AM, June 24, 2020
Oh, wow! I'm honestly stunned by the musical theme Gunwallace did for Barkham! Thank you so much!
Ozoneocean at 5:19PM, June 23, 2020
Oh really? In our out-takes I think we might have done the right version 😅 dammit! Thanks for telling us xx
Lolwutburger at 5:09AM, June 23, 2020
I'm sorry you guys had a bit of trouble pronouncing my comic's name, it's supposed to be pronounced loo-bi-verse, like universe but the beginning's different.