First and foremost I must link to the video by Jonathan Rector, if you are a creator of comic books, or even just an artist for fun this video is a must watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmkB-C5U-n8
Watch it, share it and like it.
I won't go into the method itself, if you're interested then check out the video and all will be explained, but for now here's my first go at using this way of very quickly being able to create basic (or complex, the method could be used to create very detailed buildings if you wanted) but very effective buildings to use as backgrounds for city's in comic books.
Not including making the paths of the building façade (I'm not including this as the idea is to show how quickly you could do this once you had a library of different ones to use) it took around 10 mins to create this.
Working out all of the perspective and angles and hand drawing it all would have taken a whole lot longer doing it the traditional way!
It is only basic, but if you imagine a variety used in the background of an action shot you get the idea of the amount of time that can be saved on drawing.
Again, thanks Jonathan for another great tip, all your hard work creating the videos is appreciated!
*Edit*
Another little test added, this took around five minutes to make, and I'm now really getting excited about the potential time saving that this technique could bring!
This one is even less detailed than the last (I literally just threw the façades onto a box frame) and the view is a little "fish-eyed", but I think this example illustrates the use a little better than the first, as it was done even quicker and with less effort.
Once you start adding in all the other windows, and some other smaller details it will end up looking really good!
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