Maybe your tendency towards precision is at the wrong times? If practicing, for example, it might be counterproductive since you probably want quantity instead of quality, or maybe you’re trying to get everything down precisely too early on and it’s making your work stiff.
Manfred’s point is good- “metaphor that captures the scene without the need for detail.”… If you render background details overmuch, they can distract the viewer from the focal point of the work. Maybe put some effort into looking at how the “metaphors” of different things work? For example, how more skilled artists draw/paint grass in the distance, or whatnot.
I think it’s a common thing to sort of notice something wrong in an area, and to spend a lot of time on that area in hopes of fixing it, which would make it less sloppy… Maybe sketch that thing a lot for practice.
If you’re drawing from life, it’s possible that lack of sloppiness comes from not making sense of the gestalt, so to speak. I’d think that understanding the form of the subject and how the lighting on it works means you can simplify things away. I don’t do much (read: any) figure drawings from life, but I’d imagine that understanding the figure and what’s important and what isn’t would be helpful. Maybe doing some master copies of skilled, more abstract drawings of the figure would help. Maybe look up a comic artist or cartoonist you like and look at what they do.
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To address your actual question, I’d say I don’t know any particular evidence for why that should be so.
Rationality-technique-wise: It’s good that you asked people, since that would bring you evidence of the idea being true or false. In the future it might be even more useful to suppress hypothesizing until some more investigating has gone on- “biological limit” is the sort of thing that feels true if you don’t understand how to do something or how to understand how to do something. I think there’s a post about this, or something; let me see if I can find it… ETA2: The exact anecdote I was thinking of doesn’t apply as much as I thought it did, but maybe the post “Fake Explanations” or something applies?
Some guesses on my part-
Maybe your tendency towards precision is at the wrong times? If practicing, for example, it might be counterproductive since you probably want quantity instead of quality, or maybe you’re trying to get everything down precisely too early on and it’s making your work stiff.
Manfred’s point is good- “metaphor that captures the scene without the need for detail.”… If you render background details overmuch, they can distract the viewer from the focal point of the work. Maybe put some effort into looking at how the “metaphors” of different things work? For example, how more skilled artists draw/paint grass in the distance, or whatnot.
I think it’s a common thing to sort of notice something wrong in an area, and to spend a lot of time on that area in hopes of fixing it, which would make it less sloppy… Maybe sketch that thing a lot for practice.
If you’re drawing from life, it’s possible that lack of sloppiness comes from not making sense of the gestalt, so to speak. I’d think that understanding the form of the subject and how the lighting on it works means you can simplify things away. I don’t do much (read: any) figure drawings from life, but I’d imagine that understanding the figure and what’s important and what isn’t would be helpful. Maybe doing some master copies of skilled, more abstract drawings of the figure would help. Maybe look up a comic artist or cartoonist you like and look at what they do.
ETA:
To address your actual question, I’d say I don’t know any particular evidence for why that should be so.
Rationality-technique-wise: It’s good that you asked people, since that would bring you evidence of the idea being true or false. In the future it might be even more useful to suppress hypothesizing until some more investigating has gone on- “biological limit” is the sort of thing that feels true if you don’t understand how to do something or how to understand how to do something. I think there’s a post about this, or something; let me see if I can find it… ETA2: The exact anecdote I was thinking of doesn’t apply as much as I thought it did, but maybe the post “Fake Explanations” or something applies?