DAE remember when everyone was obsessed with super detailed line art?

I used to spend hours on a single character outline, but after seeing so much cool painterly work on ArtStation last year, I switched to blocking in shapes first. It cut my sketch time in half and feels way more natural. Anyone else move away from super clean line work?

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thomas_young4d ago

My cousin went to art school and they made him paint with a big brush taped to a stick for a whole semester. Couldn't get near the canvas. He said it forced him to see the big shapes and nothing else. Sounds like the same idea, just a really extreme way to learn it.

noahchen4d ago

Actually, blocking in shapes first was always the classic way to do it, even before painterly styles got popular. That whole "line art first" thing was more of a specific digital art trend, wasn't it? Feels like we all just got stuck in that one way of working for a while.