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What am I missing?
9 years ago
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Why I can create a character, a pose, a scene, I can easily draw my imagination on paper in few minutes as a rough sketch, and then need 15 hours only to lineart it?
I feel like I'm missing something. Okay, making a sketch is easy, just rough thick lines without bothering of the details, mostly trying to get the proportions and perspective right.
I love that phase. It's when I really use my imagination, my intuitive side. It allows me tos ay "I want to make a sci-fi like gladiator" and come up with something like that in maybe 10 mins of drawing.
And then... right after it there is the second phase. The analytical one, which I hate so much. It's still creative but in the opposite way: it wants to be precise. To make sure things are in a certain way not because that was the doodle I did before, but because there must be a reason, a rule. It's... exhausting. It takes way too much.
It's not that I don't like it, I still enjoy drawing through things like this but I don't feel it being worth so much time...
I don't understand why. I guess some of the reasons could be addressed to my screen resolution (high DPI means things are too small to draw zoomed out, and being zoomed in all the time slows down the process heavily). But I still feel I miss something... What could it be? :c
I feel like I'm missing something. Okay, making a sketch is easy, just rough thick lines without bothering of the details, mostly trying to get the proportions and perspective right.
I love that phase. It's when I really use my imagination, my intuitive side. It allows me tos ay "I want to make a sci-fi like gladiator" and come up with something like that in maybe 10 mins of drawing.
And then... right after it there is the second phase. The analytical one, which I hate so much. It's still creative but in the opposite way: it wants to be precise. To make sure things are in a certain way not because that was the doodle I did before, but because there must be a reason, a rule. It's... exhausting. It takes way too much.
It's not that I don't like it, I still enjoy drawing through things like this but I don't feel it being worth so much time...
I don't understand why. I guess some of the reasons could be addressed to my screen resolution (high DPI means things are too small to draw zoomed out, and being zoomed in all the time slows down the process heavily). But I still feel I miss something... What could it be? :c
It's like chopping onions, you want to chop onions really fast and maybe you do but this Indian guy can chop a whole onion in 5 seconds, sliced and even diced because his life was all about chopping onions
Well, darn. Onion chopping is way easier to explain. Look at those who know how to cook and those who don't and you can see the difference in time spent chopping onions!
But again, that's my personal point hoping it may give a clue to the right direction
The reason I do this is because of two reasons: Vectors take TIME. Lotsa time. Where-as if I do it with a simple fine-liner on paper it takes me 30 minutes to create the most details I could ever think of.
The second reason is quite simple: sketching on paper has a different feel to itself, helps you immediately bring in tiny details that you wouldn't have thought of when rough sketching digitally. I find this especially true when you're starting with big projects. Hell, I have this piece completely done traditionally in half the time I would have done it in Sai, with half the effort of thinking up the details.
Of course it may just be because of me being more used to traditional drawing, but in the end it really helps me to start on the details when it's done traditionally. A simple pencil and eraser can get you a lot further than a CTRL+Z combo.