> Any mistake [master artists] can make is an incredible deliberate choice.
yeah really, my experience as an artist[1] is about 50% "I am gonna deliberately draw this lady with exaggerated proportions" and about 50% more like "aww shit I got really into some parts of this piece and only just now realized how much I fucked up these underlying proportions, and I really like some of the bits I already did too much to throw it away, how can I make it work".
Digital tools make it easier to deal with the second case, "lemme just grab this head and move it down a bit" is infinitely easier in Photoshop than on canvas.
1: I've paid my bills with art since ~2000, and I've worked under people who were definitely masters of their craft, and I have seen the exact same "shit I fucked this up how can I make this work, okay this looks kinda cool now and it reads as a stylistic decision instead of a mistake" behavior in their drawings.
yeah really, my experience as an artist[1] is about 50% "I am gonna deliberately draw this lady with exaggerated proportions" and about 50% more like "aww shit I got really into some parts of this piece and only just now realized how much I fucked up these underlying proportions, and I really like some of the bits I already did too much to throw it away, how can I make it work".
Digital tools make it easier to deal with the second case, "lemme just grab this head and move it down a bit" is infinitely easier in Photoshop than on canvas.
1: I've paid my bills with art since ~2000, and I've worked under people who were definitely masters of their craft, and I have seen the exact same "shit I fucked this up how can I make this work, okay this looks kinda cool now and it reads as a stylistic decision instead of a mistake" behavior in their drawings.