ABSTRACT
Mastering both perspective and backgrounds is essential for moving beyond pinup work and into serious, professional manga sequential art. One-point perspective is a system whereby a panel has a single vanishing point. Turn on Snap to Perspective and draw away. Yang is far more comfortable penciling perspective lines and backgrounds entirely by hand before inking the backgrounds with Manga Studio. Two-point perspective tends to be more interesting, so many medium and long shots are two-point perspective instead of one-point. Instead of viewing an object from directly in front, two-point looks at the corner. Perspective and backgrounds aren’t really exciting. But, they are essential. Some have described getting into serious background detail as a Zen experience. Vanishing points, with the exception of three-point perspective, will always be found on the horizon line.
