It's because I'm a lazy artist, and many others are too.

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Oh well. At least you put forth effort to actually draw. sometimes. Hopefully.

Ahaha, I could add more background. XD

More background -could- be added. :D

i do it largely because I'm lazy, (and to put a scene together to my liking takes too much time.. which leads me back to my original statement,)

but i think that for furry as a whole it's also partly because furry is built largely on the characters more than scenes or stories.
plus holy crap bodies are easier to construct than places :|
which leads us back to lazy again.

i think we'll just stick with lazy.

I find places easier to construct than bodies. :I

But damn this laziness! It plagues all the members of this ship.

D:<

Ineed to practice backgrounds more, thats why recently my artwork has had them. But yeah im usually guilty for the vast open space thing too

When you draw them, they are wonderful, and I see you are getting better every time you post new art . :)

SOLID PASTEL COLORS

IT'S WHAT BABBIES USE.

I don't GAF about backgrounds, people pay for smut.

This is also true.

I'm guilty of that a lot, but maybe not. By that I mean that when I draw a character, they're usually doing something, and if that something doesn't involve interacting with the background, the background isn't that important, so it gets a sketchy background. I don't feel too bad about that. If the character is interacting with background objects, that's different.

But a lot of the time the function of the art is simply to depict the character. For some a fursona is an inner identity, maybe even what some consider their true inner self, and the only way to express such a nonhuman fantasy identity is via art -- two-dimensional or three-dimensional (I'd call fursuits art). I suppose a self-image brought to life might seem more lifelike if it existed in a scene with a background, but mostly it's a matter of seeing the character as opposed to only imagining it.

Anyway, just some rambling on in a delayed response. :)

I never mind delayed responses.

I guess my issue is that I'm taking a ginormous amount of art classes and an even bigger workload of drawing the most completed and well rounded scenes I
possibly can. So.. I usually end up looking at people and go "awww, there's nothing to look at".

Abstract backgrounds are easy and therefore don't cause as much of a workload. In addition this trickles down to the consumer (furries lol) not having to pay as much for art as opposed to more professional work. Mind you some furs consider their anthro work to be their professional work and cater to a large audience. It is from these furs that you tend to see more worked out backgrounds. Time=money and we all have bills to pay lol.

Indeed! I guess I'm just in the minority of wanting to place backgrounds, even if they're really simple walls.

Also, shame on me for not re-watching you. D: