>>11191751The entire image is drowning in grain, both on the figures and background. You know why it's irrelevant whether the background is fabric/textured or not? Because there is exactly as much grain on it as there is on the objects we know are smooth, like The Lion's sword or the surface of the plastic bin he's standing on. When everything is uniformly grainy, it's near-impossible to ascertain the true texture of anything in the image unless it's super-rough.
