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Published: 2016-01-25 05:00:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 7336; Favourites: 281; Downloads: 0
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Description A very, very small preview from the book I'm working on about drawing backgrounds and props to have as much character as the characters.
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RachelPerciphone [2016-02-04 16:23:00 +0000 UTC]

This is going to be great!  You're my favorite go-to for tutorials and general teachings.  You explain things so well!!!  Thank you

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betsyillustration In reply to RachelPerciphone [2016-02-04 17:11:34 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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Rad-Puppeteer [2016-01-31 07:29:32 +0000 UTC]

Pretty interesting read! I'll have to try that exercise one of these days!

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Kitsune64 [2016-01-28 04:23:14 +0000 UTC]

This looks awesome! Great explanations, and good choices in the illustrations.

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betsyillustration In reply to Kitsune64 [2016-01-28 16:59:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I base it on the fact that I'm a visual learner and need image examples for myself. xD

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Kitsune64 In reply to betsyillustration [2016-01-29 09:21:34 +0000 UTC]

*laughs* I tend to need both the text and the images in order for stuff like this to make sense, so this works great for me!

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danpurin [2016-01-26 11:19:02 +0000 UTC]

Amazing explanation, and so well simplified too! I love how interesting your examples are ^^
Also thank you! I frequently reffered to your tutorials while working on my portfolio stuff for college. 

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betsyillustration In reply to danpurin [2016-01-26 17:01:55 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad I could help! 
The way you color is awesome by the way! I really like the "Down Down Down" Alice in Wonderland piece.

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danpurin In reply to betsyillustration [2016-01-26 19:14:43 +0000 UTC]

Ahh thank you so much! <3

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Shoujo-chi [2016-01-26 01:44:52 +0000 UTC]

Are you a magician of explanation?

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betsyillustration In reply to Shoujo-chi [2016-01-26 02:01:52 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I work as a magician of explanation, they just use the term "teacher" there instead.

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Shoujo-chi In reply to betsyillustration [2016-01-26 03:23:01 +0000 UTC]

 

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WhiteWingedAnwe [2016-01-25 15:33:09 +0000 UTC]

This is going to be SUCH an amazing book and I am DEFINITELY looking forward to it. Your tutorials have been so amazingly helpful to me since I found them and I love them all. (Though this one might be my definite favorite. I think I've done some of this subconsciously before, but I've never thought about it with so much detail and I'm excited to start applying these ideas to my own work!)

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betsyillustration In reply to WhiteWingedAnwe [2016-01-25 16:07:19 +0000 UTC]

Glad you're eager to try it out! Out of the hundreds of favorites that my tutorials get, I've only see one person so far actually try it.

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WhiteWingedAnwe In reply to betsyillustration [2016-01-27 16:56:53 +0000 UTC]

I've been wanting to, and I've definitely seen your tips and tricks bleeding into the way I think about my sketches! I've just been in a bit of a rut where I do all of the sketching and never finish anything.

But I've got this one idea in the works that requires a lot of thought about perspective and how it functions (and keeping characters in proportion to what I'm drawing) so all of your tutorials are back up in tabs so I can reference them and make sure I do everything right.

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betsyillustration In reply to WhiteWingedAnwe [2016-01-28 17:02:14 +0000 UTC]

OMG, I never finish my sketches either. Making this book is going to force me to finish my drawings! xD

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AlexanderKayAgordan [2016-01-25 09:59:32 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty awesome! I love reading about the effects of different parts of drawings/paintings and the like, so this was a pretty sweet read~ Will keep this in the back of my mind to come back to, most definitely! ^-^

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Farelle [2016-01-25 09:43:23 +0000 UTC]

this is really good advise! I see this so often being an issue in as example games, where the graphics are not fitting because of inconsistency, but I had alot of problems explaining to them what I mean now I can just show them your "tutorial"  

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betsyillustration In reply to Farelle [2016-01-25 16:01:46 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Glad it helps!

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TwelveStoryMountain [2016-01-25 08:21:04 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks for sharing this, I never thought of backgrounds in this way before!

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betsyillustration In reply to TwelveStoryMountain [2016-01-25 16:01:36 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! I hope to help artists see that backgrounds are characters too.

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