HOW TO STOP OVERWORKING YOUR PAINTINGS

[@ChantelleArts]

I can't stand working on a piece for longer than a day either, huge respect for those oil painters that work for months on a painting ❤

[@baizhuwaitingroom7057]

I have the opposite problem, because I struggle to finish anything and I should be putting *more* work and thought into my art. My brain for some reason tries to rush everything and skim over individual stages as if it was a race, not allowing myself to enjoy the moment and the process and as a result I end up burning myself out before I finish, and then when I come back to the piece after a break, I notice too many mistakes and things I could have had planned better (or planned at all), and then my motivation is gone. It's so overwhelming and I found out that I actually perform better if I divide everything into smaller steps and do very little work at a time and stretch it over the course of many days or weeks. That way I get to finish stuff without rushing, and at the end I have a clear enough idea of what I want it to look like that overworking it is unlikely.

[@mjpete27]

Hullo Sara, I am avoiding digital art these days yet I appreciate how much currently working Artists must embrace its use. I believe looking at such intense complimentary colors on a monitor can affect vision or colors seen when looking away from your monitor to another illuminated source Like a TV or another monitor or even a flat white surface. I painted a picture with bars of complimentary colors, When the viewer looked away form the picture they saw an after image of the picture when looking at a white wall! I had it in a gallery show with the picture next to a white framed "space" then viewers could see the effect as they started at my painting! it was a fun way to illustrate how we can fool the eye of our viewers!

[@michelleip75]

Thanks for covering this topic in digital painting! 💝 It brings me back to my art and animation classes where we were told not to “polish a turd”, lol! I’m currently taking a storyboarding class and I absolutely related to my drawings having a claustrophobic feel. I now have a greater appreciation for the skills of professional storyboard artists after trying to do it myself for nearly five weeks now!

[@scryptcrypt3528]

The colors of this digital painting remind me of strawberry shortcake or strawberry jam!! 🍓 I also like how you represented certain fashion, hair and makeup trends in your digital paintings throughout the years. Such as the thick headband from “lemons” and the dress from “hellebores”! It looks like you drew a wolf cut for today’s piece, which is so cute!!

[@six.studios]

i love how you make your paintings so soft but so crisp at the same time aaaa they're always so pretty!!!

[@dizzydizzee]

so beautiful

[@tasticola]

Love it Sara! x Nell.

[@danielwilliams3161]

I feel like for me and most people it would take about 2 to 12 hours you actually finish a piece most of the time and then even then when it's all finished yet it's a little bit more we can add as an extra highlights right or add extra definition to the face whatever it technically is right and obviously especially with certain filters that we have puffed the programs we can easily do that without even needing to do order fancy that going in detail in every single thing and also does depend on the stylistic trace you're doing for some put if you're environmentalism that a proper realism yeah you could do a couple short Scott's right but in India it will take about a whole day or probably more than that because you've got a make sure looks at least viable you're amazing but every smaller stylistic kind of approach you can literally get away with it done in about at 23 hours to read my book 3 hours to raise my eye because a you got a fine referee looking forward then you Ve got a morphet and change it and haven't a vision of what you want it to look like whileashington the sceptics town got a schedule take like 1020 minutes you do right then if you do line out you gotta rely on that take the level at 510 minutes right once I've done and you could put the collar down the basis and do everything else and then that builds up and builds up because like that will take like a hole The whole rest of it will be like 8090% maybe 90% of the painting is all that time frame used right and that's how it's got to be done until yet it does take some time but I think there is a way for us to keep it the same but keep efficient and more we practice the more easy wage we can get around certain things and make it easier for us to design what we need to design without it I was taking us like a whole 6A hours ago and 1 taking 8 to 6 to 8 hours to draw sovereign Grant with spectacular years long but at the time goes on you don't even know it's because that you're popular and vibrant listening to music and an overget and then do you go you think you've finished a piece but when you run at all you need to add to the skip to some technology to the skin you'd put more hallets in the eyes mohammad says you to keep the eyelashes a bit more overclose you need to like you know you've got a lot of caves on and can't change things so you are finished but it's just a part of tweaking And when you've done a tweak in that's when you can

[@Mollyjane33]

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[@estrellah2801]

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