artist-confessions: It’s not all about packing detail into a drawing; it’s also knowing when to pull back. Any amateur artist could render a painstakingly detailed illustration, but that wouldn’t make their work more “pro” than the artist in the background, who, to my knowledge, is a professional animator. I really like simplified stuff, and I think trying to establish atmosphere, emotion, and action without as many details could actually be harder for some people. In any case, less ranting, more drawing. submitted by -nikki0417
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artist-confessions:

It’s not all about packing detail into a drawing; it’s also knowing when to pull back. Any amateur artist could render a painstakingly detailed illustration, but that wouldn’t make their work more “pro” than the artist in the background, who, to my knowledge, is a professional animator.

I really like simplified stuff, and I think trying to establish atmosphere, emotion, and action without as many details could actually be harder for some people. In any case, less ranting, more drawing.

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It seems from the comments on the Duke Nukem comic that a lot of people don’t really understand what Uncanny Valley is, or why it’s horrible and creepy and something no designer should approve of unless they’re in the horror business (in which case you need to push it to the limit). “Uncanny Valley” does not necessarily refer to things that are trying to be realistic, nor does it mean “anything you think is ugly”. Specifically, the term “Uncanny Valley” was meant to refer to robots, saying that people will like things that look like obvious abstractions of people, and people will like things that look exactly like people, but people are repulsed by things that look almost like people but not quite.

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - Close But No Cigar

So terrifyingly true, this is akin to the cartoon thing I wrote last summer, but much more logical and commonsensical than mine.

Source: thepunchlineismachismo.com