Shoutout to the stat that shocked me live on stream last night

I was showing off my latest digital painting setup in a small Discord call with some artists I met online... and I mentioned I usually work at 300 DPI for print. One guy asked if I knew how many layers my file actually had. I checked Procreate and it said 87 layers just for this one landscape piece. I laughed because I never even counted them before. Then another friend said her biggest file hit 200 layers for a cityscape she did for a contest last month in Chicago. I couldn't believe it... I always thought my stuff was overkill but turns out people go way bigger. Anyone else ever peek at their layer count and get surprised? What's the highest you've hit?

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adamcoleman11d ago

Peeked at my layers once and saw I had 23 layers of just clouds I kept tweaking. Turns out I'm not an artist, I'm just a guy who can't commit to a single fluffy cloud shape. What's your highest layer count that made you question your life choices?

luna_wells5710d ago

Does @adamcoleman know that those 23 cloud layers individually each had like 3 or 4 more sub-layers hiding in them? My highest was 47 layers of just grass variations and I still couldn't pick a blade shape I liked.