/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3758865
Seems you've ignored what I said as I explicity stated that it entirely depends on the needs of the story and panel. Your stance in relation to the image in >>3758750 was that it was redundant detail better spent elsewhere or invested in a new page to which I offered up reasons why I don't consider that to be true, based on a lot of succesful manga and their iconic moments and in your own words that its about visual storytelling.
As for using assistants, thats also largely in part due to the deadline in general as there are also mangaka with monthly serializations that don't use them and draw backgrounds all the same.
So far your ONLY example featuring this minimal aesthetic is Bleach, something you could argue to be a stylistic choice more so than a workload one and you seem to be intentionally ignoring the fact i've said multiple times that the need for a background depends on the story. It's also amusing to me that you bring up the later parts of Bleach when it was at its lowest in the Jump rankings and on its way to being canceled. This could be attributed to the story being mediocre and having ran its course or mediocre art, who knows.
>they'll still only spend a few seconds on each page
Citation needed. Probably true, pointless to bring up as everyone is different. We can't use that as a metric in working out whether or not the quality of art in a manga has an impact on sales. So again I'll refer you to the fact that the MAJORITY of best selling (20million+) go against your view so perhaps some people do value it more than you.
>>3758867
Selling the background and environment might be important to the story? Most mangaka more successful than you or I DO "waste time on them". Our time is limited so maybe, just fucking maybe, they're spending it doing it what they want while we sit here posting garbage. Everything is a tool (EXCEPT DETAILED BACKGROUNDS).
>>3758868
Thanks!