wobblegong

Thinkin' about animals....

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*tiny furry cheeps*

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The way I and most incredible painters I look up to do it:

  1. gestural sketch, quick and messy
  2. optional cleaner sketch phase
  3. optional lineart phase
  4. flat colors
  5. paint the shading and such!
  6. make a new layer on top of the lines and do overpainting, which gets rid of lines you don't need and keeps the ones that you don't end up going over.

It makes for a really cool style and the lines add definition in places you don't feel like fully overpainting. I'm not familiar with your workflow but maybe this will give you some ideas!

Oh yeah, I think that's a fairly popular approach especially in the digital art spaces I'm in! And it is VERY pretty. Unfortunately in this specific case I am doing shit I really ought to be doing in Illustrator(/please existence I want a good vector art alternative) which means hyper-clean, no detail, focusing on postive vs negative space contrast. Not lineless in a painting style, lineless in a logo style!