part time artist, full time bitch

people tend to enjoy either coloring OR lineart and dislike the other (the majority of exceptions to this being “i hate every part of drawing” or “i love every part of drawing”)

lineart is the least favorite by a landslide so far, and i’m really curious if that’s a sampling bias thing. for instance would this trend hold true on another website, among professional illustrators only, if the poll was limited to specific age ranges, etc

several lineart apologists have cited a childhood full doodling during class as a possible reason they prefer lining over coloring, which tracks with my personal experience as well! i didn’t have art classes or a ton of access to paints/coloring supplies growing up, and it’s made coloring feel like “that extra thing i have to do after the art’s already done”

lots of write-ins for “finding pose/lighting references” and yeah kinda on me for forgetting that one (btw if this is you check out magicposer dot com)

for some reason there seems to be a lot of overlap between “hates lineart” and “hates coming up with ideas”

considering running a separate poll for color dislikers that differentiates between “choosing colors” and “actually doing the coloring” because it didn’t even occur to me that some people would hate the act of coloring itself

this poll is by design directed mostly at digital artists with a similar process to mine, but a decent number of people have added in the tags that their answers are different for traditional vs digital art, which i thought was pretty interesting