Recycling Cartoon Backgrounds — everyonelovescartoons.com

Having having taken the time to create an elaborate background, it seems a shame to limit it to appearing in just one cartoon.

You can get a lot of mileage out of a good background.

I’m huge fan of recycling elements from previous cartoons and backgrounds are ideal for this.

In this article I’m going to look at a couple of different backgrounds and the cartoons I used them as a base for. I’m also going to come up with some new idea for one of them.

Desert Scene

This was a simple one to create. I mainly used the watercolour tool in Procreate. Now let’s look at a few cartoons that shared this background.

This was the first appearance of the background. As you can see, I added another ridge of mountains in the far distance.

The background then came in very useful for a set of illustrations I produced for an episode of the Modern Wisdom podcast. I changed the intensity of the background a little to make the colours brighter.

Here’s another one from the same set. I kept the mountain range, but turned the desert into a salt lake bed for the jet car to run on.

Beach Scene

For this one I used the turpentine tool in Procreate. I really like using this tool for water and waves.

I wanted beach for the seaplane to be sitting on, so this came in very useful. Percy here is going to reappear soon.

I used it again soon afterwards with only minor modification for the above cartoon.

Thinking Up A New Idea.

I thought I’d try a quick mindmap to see what new ideas might be created. After noting down ‘pelican’ and ‘someone fishing’, I thought I’d also recycle Percy.

Percy Returns!

Why go to the bother of fishing when you can get takeout?

Trying Out A New Background For The New Cartoon

I was curious how the new cartoon idea would work against a more dramatic background. So I dre a black cliff face to make the characters stand out more.

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Having having taken the time to create an elaborate background, it seems a shame to limit it to appearing in just one cartoon.

You can get a lot of mileage out of a good background.

I’m huge fan of recycling elements from previous cartoons and backgrounds are ideal for this.

In this article I’m going to look at a couple of different backgrounds and the cartoons I used them as a base for. I’m also going to come up with some new idea for one of them.

Desert Scene

This was a simple one to create. I mainly used the watercolour tool in Procreate. Now let’s look at a few cartoons that shared this background.

This was the first appearance of the background. As you can see, I added another ridge of mountains in the far distance.

The background then came in very useful for a set of illustrations I produced for an episode of the Modern Wisdom podcast. I changed the intensity of the background a little to make the colours brighter.

Here’s another one from the same set. I kept the mountain range, but turned the desert into a salt lake bed for the jet car to run on.

Beach Scene

For this one I used the turpentine tool in Procreate. I really like using this tool for water and waves.

I wanted beach for the seaplane to be sitting on, so this came in very useful. Percy here is going to reappear soon.

I used it again soon afterwards with only minor modification for the above cartoon.

Thinking Up A New Idea.

I thought I’d try a quick mindmap to see what new ideas might be created. After noting down ‘pelican’ and ‘someone fishing’, I thought I’d also recycle Percy.

Percy Returns!

Why go to the bother of fishing when you can get takeout?

Trying Out A New Background For The New Cartoon

I was curious how the new cartoon idea would work against a more dramatic background. So I dre a black cliff face to make the characters stand out more.

Interested In Drawing Cartoon Dogs?

Add your name, best email address, and type “Woof!” In the subject line, and I’ll send you details of the ‘Cartooning Canines - How To Draw Cartoon Dogs’ Course.

Rob Middleton