Someone at a local meetup said my art looked 'too clean' and it bugged me for a week

They pointed out that my digital paintings, especially the landscapes, felt sterile because I was overusing the blur tool to smooth everything. I switched to a textured brush set in Krita and started leaving in more rough sketch lines, which added a lot more life. Has anyone else gotten a piece of feedback that made you switch up your whole brush workflow?

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sam_harris6824d ago

Funny how one offhand comment can totally reframe your work. I was the same way, obsessed with that perfect airbrush look for years. A friend said my portraits looked like they were made of plastic, which stung, but they were right. Now I force myself to keep the first sketch layer visible at low opacity, and it adds a shaky, human energy that was missing before.

sullivan.john24d ago

Man that hits home. I used to get so caught up in making a floor layout look perfect on paper, like it was a machine cut it. Then you walk on it and something feels off, too stiff. Leaving a little room for how things actually fit together on the job, that's where the good stuff happens. It's like you need that wobble to make it feel real.