Drawing is more important than painting

[Fedodika]

from what i've heard from feng zhu and people like paul richards who have been in the industry for a long time; draftsmanship alone can land you concept art jobs; Even rapoza admits on some recent streams that he is selling just lineart concepts to film and games now. Neilson is a great drafstman and could sell his stuff on the sketches alone. Fowkes works with strong sillhouettes, but in his field of landscapes, draftsmanship may come secondary to color and value. But my point here is still consistent in that the composition or the arrangement of shapes is more important than the rendering.

And yes like i said, if you're an illustrator it will be to your advantage to render well, but i've seen plenty of comic book illustrations whose rendering is less than impressive, but the drawing is fantastic. and being popular is very important if you can make your livelihood off of it; I'm sure many people would take sakimichan's patreon success over working a low end concept art job, rendering brick textures.

Also, this guy can't render for shit, but do you really think that stops him from getting work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xouzSeDKQs