Spent six weeks on a digital painting only to scrap it last minute

I was painting this epic fantasy scene for over a month. Every day I kept adding tiny details and effects. But the longer I worked, the more it lost its spark. It just looked flat and boring. So I deleted the whole thing and did a quick sketch instead. That sketch turned out way more alive and fun. Honestly, sometimes taking forever just kills the art.

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taylorp5010d ago

My friend did this huge comic page with insane detail. He worked on it for ages until it just felt dead. Then he redid the whole thing in like an hour with just ink, and it looked a hundred times better.

mia5210d ago

Honestly it's not even about the time itself, it's how you use it. I've gotten stuck for days just on one small thing like leaf textures or armor shine. All that detail work can make you lose the big picture. The fast sketch works because it keeps that first excited feeling, before you overthink every single brushstroke.

tylermurray8d ago

Two days last month, just on the wood grain for a fence post in a watercolor. By the end, the rest of the landscape looked flat and boring. Scrapped it and did a quick ink wash in thirty minutes, and it finally worked. That first spark really does vanish if you poke at it too long.