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Seeing this sort of thing really does drive me mad. It’s lovely work obviously, but seriously, please define ‘quick‘.
I know I’m not a professional, and I’m VERY slow, but I was also drawing last night. This was all I managed, and that doesn’t include pencilling it, and I’ve still got to shade and colour it. This was at least 3 hours.
I love seeing people’s work on Twitter, but there’s so many times I see people posting artwork that suggests they only spent half an hour on something that would probably take me weeks. ‘A quick warm up sketch’. *a beautiful fully rendered colour sci-fi vista *
It just sets so many unrealistic expectations for so many people. From young artists trying to get started to clients looking to commission work (who ALREADY want to pay us bloody peanuts for our time, if anything at all).
People: good drawing takes a long time. We shouldn’t be ashamed of this.
