My neighbor Marie called my digital art "soulless" and it actually made me rethink my whole workflow

She's this older lady who does watercolor landscapes in her backyard, and she said my stuff looks too perfect, like a robot made it. I got defensive at first, but then I looked back at my last 20 pieces and realized she had a point. Everything was super clean with no happy accidents or messy brush strokes. Has anyone else had a random comment from someone outside digital art that totally shifted how you create?

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noah_palmer4215d ago

Watercolors are full of happy accidents because the medium fights back a bit. That "too clean" feeling might be from you controlling everything too tight, it happens when your tools don't leave any surprise marks.

christopher_singh9215d ago

Yeah my buddy's dad who's a potter said something kind of similar once. He was throwing a vase and my art came up, and he goes "everything looks like you planned it, there's no fight in it." A potter telling me about fighting with my medium made me start using those messy textured brushes I always ignored.