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Ousama Ranking BGs are back again...
Feb. 8th, 2022 09:05 pmI'm back to cry about a show I don't watch (but really, my friends do, why aren't I?)
Twitter thread of an artist from Ousama Ranking showing off painting a background
Who tf paints BGs in 2022? That's BONKERS and I love it with all my heart.
Some of the comments I've seen are people saying they're watercolour BGs. They're not! They're gouache. There's like a 10% chance it's water based acrylic, but industry standard was/is gouache. Gouache can do both the transparent watercolour look and also be completely opaque as well. Watercolour isn't an opaque paint by nature and doesn't hit the rich colours needed for anime/cartoon BGs (unless you're going for a very storybook/dreamy look with your BG style, then watercolour). I use to try to mimic painting BGs with watercolour when I was younger and I could never get them to turn out. When I got a teacher for it he was like "so gouache" and it was a gamechanger LOL. I didn't end up being very good at it, but it was fun (and I did make one very decent BG once haha).
My paint teacher years ago told me whenever he saw BGs come in that had frayed paint edging like this, he always knew they'd been outsourced to Japan lol. They were the only ones who did that. NA and EU painters taped off their edges. I've seen some NA painted BGs with the tape edges and they're so clean cut lol. I love the messy paint edges, adds personality to the art.
( I suppose this is an excuse to share 2 favourite BGs that I have )
Twitter thread of an artist from Ousama Ranking showing off painting a background
Who tf paints BGs in 2022? That's BONKERS and I love it with all my heart.
Some of the comments I've seen are people saying they're watercolour BGs. They're not! They're gouache. There's like a 10% chance it's water based acrylic, but industry standard was/is gouache. Gouache can do both the transparent watercolour look and also be completely opaque as well. Watercolour isn't an opaque paint by nature and doesn't hit the rich colours needed for anime/cartoon BGs (unless you're going for a very storybook/dreamy look with your BG style, then watercolour). I use to try to mimic painting BGs with watercolour when I was younger and I could never get them to turn out. When I got a teacher for it he was like "so gouache" and it was a gamechanger LOL. I didn't end up being very good at it, but it was fun (and I did make one very decent BG once haha).
My paint teacher years ago told me whenever he saw BGs come in that had frayed paint edging like this, he always knew they'd been outsourced to Japan lol. They were the only ones who did that. NA and EU painters taped off their edges. I've seen some NA painted BGs with the tape edges and they're so clean cut lol. I love the messy paint edges, adds personality to the art.
( I suppose this is an excuse to share 2 favourite BGs that I have )
