I get what you mean, but the problem is this is my own weakpoint I'm not very good in that myself, so maybe it would be best to look for tutorials of it on DA. We have couple of it in our tutorial-gallery as well =3 But sorry, I can't teach something that I'm not fond of myself

Well.. there is only practice The more often you use a technique, the faster you will be able to use it......

xD Backgrounds are my big weakpoint as well xD I tend to get too lazy to draw them anymore once my characters are finished. The problem usually starts with the character.... if you draw a character without thinking of what to put in the background later, its almost impossible making a background that matches...

Let me show you what I mean...

This one was a lineart that should portrait my character Deamond:
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It looked really nice, especially in my head. I wanted to do something with blue and dark colors, but didn't think at all about what to put in the bg... after coloring him I still couldn't come up with something decent -> Had to come up with a standard background. Typical anime-like dots, textures, resized parts of the picture, etc... examples:
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You see what I mean? Look at the characters. They stand there posing -> They don't really belong to a background anyway.... so it is hard coming up with something for them....

The only way to get out of that is to think about the background beforehand. What is your character doing? How can you bind him/her into the background? Make them interact?

If you know during your sketch already what's going in the background, its way easier to later put them in. That goes for complex pictures that actually interact with the surroundings as well as pictures of just your character staring out of the pic.

For example here:
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These two characters are 'dancing' but I already knew I was going to make this high view, so they are actually flying before starting the lineart -> If I hadn't I would have probably sat there, having the charas colored and puzzling over a bg, in the end going for my standard backgrounds again xD
Another good example how background and foreground match:
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The lineart was pretty simple: A character standing there with a waving scarf -> It had to be outside, and for example this wind element could be used again. Flying leaves or something else with movement. This character could as well stand on top of a high mountain, the deep valley in the background, etc... it is small details you give your character that can interact with a background later... Another example for the very same effect: [link]


Another way is to let your characters ineract with the background. Its easy to come up with backgrounds then as your character is part of it already.

One of my characters is mechanic, so when drawing him at work, it was obvious I'd draw a lab around him. What is typical for a lab? screws, parts, etc lying around, electronic looking things, dust, dirt,... and so I sat him right in the middle of all of this: [link]

Another possibility is to draw a background and THEN add the characters. =3 Of course you have to have a rough idea beforehand where you want to put them... but it works pretty well: [link] [link]

I hope these examples made sense to you lol