I don’t know anything about digital art, can someone explain the mixed medium look? Is this common method in this style of art? I don’t mean the ai retouching, I mean like how some of the backgrounds and e.g belles dress and body look like paint on board and the faces look like digital airbrush
There are so many different textures going on
I only know the tech, not the art. But it is very easy to do layers, with different techniques on each, without worrying about paints mixing or running as it would on a physical medium. I imagine, an artist trained in each technique would be able to combine them easily. Whether it's common, no idea.
So in digital art you can use different brushes and some are meant to mimic traditional art. For example when you make a stroke, it will automatically add a texture to your like that make it look close to a brush on canvas. Here’s some examples for Procreate: folio.procreate.com/discussions/...
The examples in that link are pretty cool actually. The pastel paper is spot on ! Thanks for educating me x
Procreate has a lot of really cool brushes and some people even make and sell custom brush packs!! It’s a very fun program for drawing, I recommend it 😄
Ah ok makes sense, so those would be entirely digital most likely, but they’ve used brushes that mimic traditional? I guess I just don’t understand the choice to do that on part of the artwork, but not on others. Like the instagram filter smooth face looks jarring to me next to faux brushstrokes
Or like in belles hair there’s textured sections next to very digital looking ones. To me it ends up looking like a mistake was made more than a choice, but it could just be that the art style isn’t for me
I agree tbh I think it’s jarring. I think it’s also possible the smooth parts are where he’s using gen ai to “enhance” his drawings which is essentially like using an instagram filter, but I couldn’t say for sure. I know he does traditional art also so he might have a preference for the textures.