Just realized a comment on my art page changed how I think about shading

Last month I posted a portrait I spent like 8 hours on. Some random user named PixelPirate42 commented "nice but her left eye is too high". I was annoyed at first but zoomed in and yeah... they were right. I'd been staring at it so long I couldn't see the mistake. Fixed it and the piece looked way better. Made me wonder how many small flaws we all miss because we're too close to our own work.

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the_jason7d ago

wait hold on - did you say this person just casually dropped "her left eye is too high" and dipped? that is wild. i had something similar happen with a painting of a cat i did, some guy pointed out the whiskers were all wrong and i nearly deleted my whole account out of embarrassment. but after i fixed it i realized they basically saved me from posting something that looked off forever. it's crazy how one small detail can throw off a whole piece and we're just sitting there blind to it.

blaker757d ago

lol @the_jason I think you meant "sitting there blind to it" not "sitting right there blind to it" but I get what you're saying. That eye thing is brutal though, one tiny shift and suddenly she looks like a Picasso.