environment/ set research design

this is a scanned in image of concept artists i started looking at for environments. The question i kept asking was ' how could my environment it my backgrounds character' 

So i looked at batman for example- he's dark mysterious, messed up, alone. as showed above he's in a dark alley, alone, dingy. 

Kung fu panda's background suites him too as in his heritage, where she lives Japan, this links to my character too x