After drawing the characters, don't know how to draw the background? Using Clip Studio Paint, you can complete an illustration in 10 minutes without drawing a background!

Hello! Little cutie

I am Comic Black Rainbow.

For those who like to draw characters, the biggest problem is that after drawing the characters, they don't know what to put in the blank background to make the whole picture look good.

Some people can't draw backgrounds.

Some people can draw backgrounds, but their drawings are not as good as those of characters.

Some people draw the background, but it is time-consuming and may not match the characters.

In such a situation, many people may just leave it alone and not draw the background...

If you are in this situation, then today's teaching is your greatest blessing.

Because if you really can't draw the background, don't like drawing the background, or are too lazy to draw the background, Why do you force yourself to draw the background?

Why can't you just not paint, and then use other methods to enrich the picture and complete the painting?

Actually, yes you can! This problem can be solved!

The method I will use is to create poster-style illustrations!!!

Maybe you will say: "But I don't know how to design a poster!!!"

It doesn't matter! We don't need to know how to design posters.

Today I will share with you some useful tips, even if you don't know how to draw backgrounds or design, you can also complete your poster-style illustration easily and time-savingly without drawing a background!

Today I will use Clip studio paint to demonstrate.

So if you also use Clip studio paint to create, let's open the software and have a try!

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●The production principle of poster style illustration

If you pay attention to the poster designs or movie posters around you, you will find that many poster designs don't with perspective. This is why I say that making poster-style illustrations can save you the pain of drawing the background! So what does poster design generally focus on? It's actually typesetting!

●What exactly is typesetting?

Generally speaking, when we talk about typesetting, we think of editing magazines or books, but we can also say that designing paper posters is typesetting. But what exactly is typesetting? If it is a general book, we arrange the text and supporting pictures; if it is a poster, we arrange the title or text, and photos or illustrations. As for poster-style illustrations, the main layout required is only character illustrations and text! So now we can open Clip studio paint to do editing and layout!

●Introduction to Clip studio paint's text tools

The text tool of Clip studio paint is very simple, and the function area is just like the picture above, which is very easy to find. There are not too many complicated things, so it will also make it very convenient for you to edit text!

●3 super simple typography tips!

If you want to delve into the field of poster design, it does have its expertise. But for those who just want to enrich the picture easily, save time, and simply, unless you consider specializing in this area, there is no need to study the profession of poster design in depth. In addition, the forms of typesetting themselves are infinite and you can never learn them all, so, as long as you learn a few techniques and know how to draw inferences from one example, you will find that the effects you can create can become infinite! So here I share with you three simple and quick poster layout techniques so that you can use them right away!

• Add border: picture and text + border

Adding a border is a very versatile method. In addition, adding some text in the relative space next to the border will make the whole picture look more informative and rich! If you like borders, in addition to looking for related border materials in Clip studio assets, you can also design some patterns you like. But if you are extremely lazy, you can consider using very simple lines as borders like in the example. You can even make some border templates directly, and you can apply them directly to any pictures you draw in the future. It is very convenient!

• Geometric typography: pictures and text + geometric blocks

The geometric blocks here are all relatively large blocks of color, which add a rich feeling to the picture, so they are very suitable for illustrations that only have simple characters and an empty background! Simply putting a large block of color may still be rather monotonous, so if you can add a large title in the color block or the blank space of the background, the picture will be much richer and will also have a poster feel!

• Geometric objects: pictures and text + geometric objects

This method may look a little more complicated than the previous two methods, but it must be said that the overall poster effect is the best! The picture will be much more beautiful! This technique is to frame the characters with geometric shapes, and then add some geometric shapes as embellishments in other blank spaces, and add titles, subtitles, and some decorative text. When arranging, you can tilt them moderately in some places to create a slightly irregular appearance, which will also make people feel that the poster is a bit lively!

After learning the illustration techniques of poster style today, have you found that there are only three tips that can come up with a lot of interesting and fun layouts?

If your character illustration currently has a blank background or you feel that you are not satisfied with the background of the current painting, or if you feel eager to try it after watching the tutorial.

Now you can open your Clip studio paint, or other software that can edit pictures and text.

Place your character illustrations in, try using Clip studio paint's text tools and materials, start making your poster-style illustrations easily and quickly!

I'm glad you were able to learn some poster-style illustration techniques that enrich the visuals! Of course, if your current problem is not whether you have a background or not, but that you may have difficulty drawing a person, an animal, or an object... then it means that you may need to improve your drawing skills first! If you hope to start by being able to draw beautiful people and things, then of course you need to learn more and more in-depth painting knowledge and skills! Otherwise, how can you make progress? That's why I created this free course to help you catch the shortcut to learning to draw! I just hope that you can learn more secrets of learning digital painting and make rapid progress! So watch the free course now! Because the free course may be removed at any time!

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