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I finally stopped hiding my sketch layers after a chat with my friend
My buddy came over yesterday and saw me working on a character piece (it's for a personal project I've been doing for about two months). He pointed at my screen and said, 'Why do you always turn those off? The messy lines look cool.' I'd been deleting my rough sketch layers for years thinking they made the final art look unfinished. But I left them on with low opacity for this piece, and it added a kind of energy I really like. It's a small thing, but it changed how I think about showing the process. Has anyone else tried keeping their sketch lines visible in a finished piece?
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hollydixon1mo agoMost Upvoted
Yeah, it's funny how we get stuck on that "clean" look... I started doing the same thing with my linework, keeping the rough layer at like 20% opacity. It gives the final drawing a bit of a heartbeat, like you can see where the idea started to move. I even leave in some of the really wrong construction lines sometimes, the ones where I was figuring out a pose.
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river_rivera451mo ago
Wait, you actually leave the wrong lines in? That's wild. I could never show my bad construction like that, it feels like showing everyone your first bad take on a song.
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