Background Drawing by mocha (KITORA) – Learn Professional Skills from Zero

The long-selling book has been greatly revised and renewed! The background is drawn with parts material. [Background industry] publishes how to draw that professionals teach newcomers. It’s full of time-saving techniques using materials so you don’t get tired of drawing backgrounds!

In the animation industry, when there are many backgrounds for TV animation, it is required to draw more than 10 sheets in a day.
How to produce quickly while maintaining quality?
As a means to solve this difficult problem, there is a technique to prepare a lot of parts materials such as clouds, trees, walls, etc., and combine them to compose the background.

This know-how is specialized for creating illustrations digitally, but I think it is a useful skill for beginners who are trying to draw illustrations on a computer.
At first glance, the complex background is actually made up of the combination and application of parts materials.

In this book, in Chapter 1, I will explain the basic idea that if you draw a background, you can connect it to your own application if you keep this in mind.
In Chapter 2, we will explain natural objects such as the sky and trees, and in Chapter 3, we will explain how to create and combine materials for artificial objects such as buildings and interiors.

This book will introduce more than 38 types of making so that we can respond to background illustrations with a wide range of motifs.
At the same time, this book will also explain the basic functions and tools of convenient software for drawing backgrounds.

Of course, it is difficult to complete a picture with only materials, but once you have mastered the basic concepts and how to make parts materials, you can apply them to create various variations. You will be able to create backgrounds.

★This book is a re-edited version of “Background Drawing” published in 2017 with significant additions
★This book explains how to draw backgrounds using Adobe Photoshop CC and CLIP STUDIO PAINT as examples. Masu The data of the 12 types of brushes and texture materials introduced in this book can be downloaded only for those who have purchased it.