>>9828143Thanks anon!
I have a drafting table with a pegboard on the far wall that I use for backdrops, and a sheet of white foamcore for bounce lighting on the side. Normally I just use regular colored posterboard sheets, but when I want to make something look like it's suspended in midair, I use sheets that have a small hole punched out and run a long thin metal rod from the pegboard through the backdrop out to where the "floating" object is, then use angle trickery to hide the support rod. I didn't do any of that in this particular comic but that's what the pegboard is for.
As for lights, I just turn off the room lights and use a pair of three-bulb pole lights ($50 each) with 5000K/ 1500 lumen LED bulbs. These are great and I have some specialty bulbs like UV and colored bulbs that I occasionally swap out in the bottom lights to do special lighting effects. Normally the lights are facing away from the table so all I get is bounce light.
Sometimes I prop the baseplates up using sideways stacks of Duplo blocks in order to be able to position the camera below ground level to get a worm's-eye view or at least a lower view than would be possible if the baseplate was sitting directly on the table.
Camera is a Canon PowerShot Elph 360HS. I really like these Elph cameras because they have good macro lenses and are compact so you can get right up next to the stuff you're shooting.
