Originally when I was planning on building my backgrounds for my characters to interact with, I Wass going to paint them in photoshop using my own personal Wacom touch tablet. Though, I felt the quality wasn’t great and I found the testing grounds helped me find better alternatives for my project.
I figured as I am already using Illustrator for my characters, then surely I could use it for my project. I decided to look up some tutorials to establish workflow and some techniques into landscapes and building backgrounds. Below is one of the tutorials I took a look at to help me.
This helped me grasp an idea of how to use simple shapes to build more complex shapes and bring the background to life.
I feel the difference between creating vector backgrounds rather than painted will help improve the quality of my work and gives a much nicer, modern finish to my work. Here is the difference between my original mockup and my finalised panel after using illustrator instead.
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