Dear DeviantART,
Honestly? I don't give a shit how realistically you draw anatomy in PHOTOSHOP. Stop selling out. Draw some background and production design fer Christsake!
Don't any of these newfangled cartoonists and aspiring manga-ka anime artists in their 20s / teens even know the first thing about composition and perspective? About placing a character in an atmospheric and contextual SCENE? The JAPANESE sure as hell do. So how do you plan to impress them if you can't even get perspective right. You think Japanese professionals, or ANYONE at the top in animation and comics, CARES that you only know ANATOMY and COSTUME DESIGN???
I KNOW THESE KIDS can draw anime anatomy. But 95% of the artwork on that site has no background. They're all afraid to draw buildings or mountains or grassy fields or towns or Tokyo or WHATEVER (!), They're afraid to study landscaping and architectural photography and sketching, because they seem to be afraid people will think less of them if they attempt a background and fail. Look, it's not that bad. You wouldn't BE SO BAD at backgrounds if you drew them half as much as you drew female anatomy. Are they really that scared of drawing badly. Hell, you all know how good I am at cities. Well most of you do. But I didn't always draw in perspective. I used to draw cardboard boxes in my panels TOO, kid. Until I actually worked at it.
Contrary to popular opinion online, Drawing things in perspective, with backgrounds, in a fully fleshed out scene, and with scenery of some sort, whether made up or from photographs WON'T KILL YOU. It will only numb your brain for a few weeks and make your brain hurt a few times until it's chemicals reconfigure themselves to accommodate your newly found knowledge of three dimensional forms on a ground plane. ANY Background is better than no background. The more you draw backgrounds, the better you will probably get at them...Just like the French!
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