artists who think doing linework is relaxing: tell me your secrets. sometimes work flows, but somedays I'll be sitting in one place hitting ctrl+z until I genuinely start getting frustrated because I want things to look clean and consistent

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artists who think doing linework is relaxing: tell me your secrets. sometimes work flows, but somedays I'll be sitting in one place hitting ctrl+z until I genuinely start getting frustrated because I want things to look clean and consistent
If you're looking for smooth clean lines have you tried vector based lineart? There's a bit of a learning curve but you get to adjust lines and line weights after they're already drawn. I know Clip Studio and Photoshop/Illustrator has them as an option, other programs probably do but I'm not familiar with them.
I have, really didn't like how it felt because I like erasing to clean them up, and you can't do that with vectors, I'd just keep on piling invisible lines and it's a mess. I didn't like how it auto adjusted the thickness after each stroke either, I can see the tool being super useful but not for me personally.
Fair enough! I really like it for my stained glass patterns where I want to be ultra consistent and then everything else I like leaving a little rougher around the edges. Regular line art my process is a mess of jumping around and trying not to zoom in more than absolutely necessary.
I like the look of those stained glass pieces! I can see how adjusting lines would be very useful in your case but I thought work didn't flow very well if I stopped to keep adjusting things, I find it's easier and quicker to just to the ctrl+z thing until you get it right (even if it's frustrating sometimes).
At the start of this year I was at a point where I was drawing the whole lineart twice and then I had a lightbulb moment that instead of spamming CRTL+Z going over the sketch that was basically already completed linework, just looked messy I could just simplify my sketching process, draw the lines and then clean them up. Also I never use Eraser for cleaning up my lines anymore, just switch the Pen to transparency mode and the edits are basically seamless.
ohh drawing it twice seemed like a lot of work. I try to do the sketch, which I clean up a bunch then one linework pass for my commissions, it's just that sometimes like today where I'm out of practice with that it gets a little complicated. I've been sketching like you've been doing and cleaning things up and throwing some basic color, but what I'm offering as commissions has to be better finalized. In the linework pass I fix a lot of mistakes that were in the sketch and I didn't see it the first time, it just makes a better final piece that way. Also the transparency thing is super convenient, I think all artists should do that to not waste more time switching tools, my cleanup of sketches and linework involves a lot using the transparency, I always just tap C and tap it again once I'm done. The eraser is for when I'm working with a small brush so I leave it at a bigger size to use during sketching.