/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3335073

If you're aimlessly rendering something without fixing fundamental inaccuracies, that is polishing a turd.

So long as you're looking for mistakes, trying to make your drawing more accurate, you're not wasting time. Just work on the line lay in for 8 hours if you can. Don't even worry about rendering, just draw the shapes of the shadows correctly. The whole time just keep looking for mistakes, negative shapes that don't match up, things that are out of proportion, angles and lines that don't match your reference. As long as you're doing that, you're not polishing a turd.

If you crank out a drawing and start trying to paint it aimlessly, that's when you're wasting your time.

The advice to go more quickly was wrong. If you're inexperienced with something, you slow down and try to figure out how to do it better, you don't try to do it faster. If you do a bad drawing, do it again, but spend twice as much time on it, and I guarantee you'll get a better result so long as you're actively looking for mistakes to fix the entire time.