/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>Milo Manara

Not to spout the whole "LOOMIS" meme, but I genuinely like his work better. No contest.

this is where i wanna be, i see the flaws with this painting but still i like it, doesn't matter where am right now.

>>1800753
Cross-contour strokes are not aimless scribbles though. They have a clear purpose and plenty of great artists are making use of them. What you are talking about is not a rule, it's simply a different style of painting. Using cross-contour strokes is not a matter of exceptional artists breaking the rules and make it work, it is simply a matter of artists using a very established, common technique that originated in traditional painting.

I'm not much of an art history guy, so don't ask me when and where exactly it originated, but plenty of golden age illustrators made consistent use of it. Even our patron saint Loomis.