why is it that in portrait drawings, if you don't plan to render it and do line art only, the less you indicate the features with lines, the better and natural the drawing will end up? it's just better to give a ''hint'' of a part of the face than drawing it entirely, at least that's how it's been working out for me... am i retarded...?>>7422947
Yes, the short answer is because lines aren't real.>>7422958
HOLY SHIT IT'S TRUE HOLY FUCK ARE YOU A GENIUS WHATTT, MY BRAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOsvKLac5AYou said it yourself -- 'natural'. Your eyes don't see lines, they see light.>>7422972
ye, but i'm kinda retarded, so ><>>7422991
If you want me to disagree with you for the sake of it, here's some homework: What about hatched works? They've been popular for hundreds of years yet they have a ton of lines, some even indicate every single turn of form. So, how do you reconcile 'the less you indicate the features with lines, the better and natural the drawing will end up' with the success of heavily lined works?>>7422998
i'm not disagreeing? i genuinely didn't know how that worked and your answer DID help me understand how it works. like, thank you !!!!>>7422998
well, hatching is still rendering, it's just a bunch of thin and small lines organized in a way to mimic form and dimensions, just like rendering with a big brush>>7423007
>>7422998
wait, you're actually right...

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