As someone who loves to work on lineart but struggles with details, it was really inspiring seeing the progress of the hawke/sebastian drawing!! Thanks for sharing~ I would love to see more in the future if you’re up for it ^^
.Tysm!!!! I do love making timelapses and rewatching them myself to figure out if I’m going wrong somewhere, it’s like resetting your eyes mid picture. I do also love seeing other people’s processes too. I realised the other day why I like digital art and drawing in ink traditionally, it’s because I get to keep the actual process of the image, in 99% of my sketches traditionally I’ve drawn messily in pink, and drawn cleanly over it in black, and with digital art it’s just there on another layer. I am such a huge fan of process that it outweighs that final piece of art for me.
.I also think there’s a lot that can be learned from an artist’s process over idk a tutorial they make; I remember a while ago I asked another artist (I cannot remember who girlie mb ✋😬🤚) about drawing hands, and they made this nice little post that did help me but probably not how it would be expected, because with that post I realised my issue was with the foundation shapes I was drawing weren’t blocky enough for what I wanted. A simple “this is my process” from someone else helped me figure that out.
.For detailing! I find that not actually initially sketching everything helps a lot, (in my Sebhawke I actually add in Sebastian as an afterthought lmao it was just going to be Hawke on his own 😂) both in the fact that if you think of something mid picture you can just fit it in with little problem, and sketching loosely helps to free up and relax the hand if you’re getting a bit stiff drawing solely lineart. Also, I don’t know if this applies to anyone else but sometimes I’ll get a bit stuck on drawing a certain part of the image (maybe it’s a hand or idk how the clothes are supposed to lay) and it’s a really simply solution to just sketch it over the basic sketch, so it’s a bit more detailed and easier to lineart. Like idk what part of my brain was like “once the sketch is finished you can NEVER go back to it” because that’s stupid as hell; I’ll be on shading and realise that I could wedge something in somewhere and just go straight back to sketching.
.I do think that heavy detail is something that has to be built up to though, it’s not like something that can be done instantly without probably burning out or ending up hating detailing work. It’s also mental to look back on my stuff from like 2020 that I thought was so detailed for my skill at the time, and then comparing it to what I was making in 2023 which has as much detail in as I could manage; like that is progress and there’s no way I could have made that level of detail before I’d built myself up to it. And that compared to what I’m making now 😭 ……bro… I think my main issue is that I don’t know exactly how to flesh out medieval / fantasy stuff in a way that looks proper, just from like actual lack of knowledge about the time period even though I’m 👀🥴😩👌 about it, whereas cyberpunk was considerably easier because just slap a bunch of fans and wires and boxes and you’re good to go 👌.
.As an added note, detailing can literally just be drawing like a 3d shoelace instead of just a single line to represent a shoelace. Then you start drawing the eyelets in another picture, and then you do the proper stitching on the shoes, or maybe a distinctive tread, then maybe there’s buckles or velcro or a designer label on them. It’s not something to hyper fixate on all in one go. Literally just drawing the seams on clothing adds a layer of detail, (and also shows form!) and now I’m like rarely ever not drawing them because it’s just subconscious for me to add them in.
.Realistically I’d like to make proper timelapses that are actual screen recordings as opposed to what CSP shows because there’s probably a bunch of times where I’m just sitting there thinking about stuff or getting distracted by research, and that doesn’t show in my current timelapses; I don’t just one bomb these pictures!!! I faff for a fair bit of it!!! Also rotation and zoom on the canvas, the CSP recordings are kind of deceptive in omitting those.
.Anyway I have a timelapse tag for all my timelapse stuff, which is…. not a lot but STILL!! Also there’s this timelapse of my zevwarden picture from a bit ago that I never uploaded whoopsie 😘💕.
