01-25-2015, 07:25 PM
meat: It depends on the purpose of the painting/drawing. Sometimes there won’t be enough time to do a full render just to show a concept, so lines get used to communicate the design, or show how something works. Lines keep me from hurrying through areas I didn’t fully think through, as I might do with straight painting.
In this case, doing a neat line drawing first (and then a flat color block-in on several layers) also helped me a lot to keep everything from becoming a chaotic mess - especially with perspective heavy stuff like architecture/arches. Without establishing all that first, and having my block-ins to work with selections and stuff, I don’t think it would look like this now, but way more wonky and messy. The downside of this process is that it makes revisions and changes later on very hard/tedious.
That said, I’m not sure that the last line-pass I did would have been needed just for painting purposes, the slightly looser version I did before probably would’ve been sufficient. I’m in dire need of polishing my line drawing skills though, so I’m glad Kalen made me clean it up and not be lazy. Whether or not to keep/show lines, or to which extent, is probably just a stylistic choice. There are plenty of other, probably smarter ways to work - I’m still figuring stuff out here.. always looking for ways to work smarter, better, more efficient. Thank you for your support, meat. :)
In this case, doing a neat line drawing first (and then a flat color block-in on several layers) also helped me a lot to keep everything from becoming a chaotic mess - especially with perspective heavy stuff like architecture/arches. Without establishing all that first, and having my block-ins to work with selections and stuff, I don’t think it would look like this now, but way more wonky and messy. The downside of this process is that it makes revisions and changes later on very hard/tedious.
That said, I’m not sure that the last line-pass I did would have been needed just for painting purposes, the slightly looser version I did before probably would’ve been sufficient. I’m in dire need of polishing my line drawing skills though, so I’m glad Kalen made me clean it up and not be lazy. Whether or not to keep/show lines, or to which extent, is probably just a stylistic choice. There are plenty of other, probably smarter ways to work - I’m still figuring stuff out here.. always looking for ways to work smarter, better, more efficient. Thank you for your support, meat. :)