Lately I've been drawing a lot of traditional art. I find the physicality of it very nice. With AI making me even less motivated then I already was, it nice to make something "real". At the moment I really enjoy prisma colored pencil and felt ink pens. For the pens i generally use 0.05-0.5mm, using larger pens for outlines and foreground stuff and smaller pens for backgrounds and details. But I've also been exploring fountain pens, I want to get some traditional manga pens to use. The downside of ink tho is how permanent it is. But surprisingly it's also a benefit, I'm more willing to let small mistakes go. It's made me realize that a lot of the mistakes I worried about in the past just weren't a big deal a lot of the time lol. Another thing that traditional art has made me realize, is just how much I over used zoom and how it messed with my perspective. It's hard to get a sense of scale with digital art for me, all screens are different so I never had a sense of scale. This made it difficult not to worry about making lineart perfect at 5000% lol. I have nothing against digital art of course, I've just found traditional art more fufilling lately.

If anyone has any tips, or wants to talk about traditional art feel free to leave a Comment. I'd love to hear people's favorite mediums and what they find most satisfying about the process, personally I love the feeling of holding my art in my hands after I hit milestones.

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