/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2221028
It is a fantastically stupid question. The sheer use of tone here catapults this to new heights on /ic/.

>With experience i assume the lower steps of the process can be cut out, but overall is this really all art is?
>Build a frame and add detail with pass after pass until you stop and call it "done"

Yes, that's really 'all' art is. To drop another shocker, many writers tend to build a frame and add detail with pass after pass until they stop and call it "done", as well.

Did you really think artists just went around shitting complete pieces out wholesale? There's photocopiers grid-methoding photographs from top down, sure, but drawing from the imagination successfully requires actual thought.

The fact that this is in any way surprising to you doesn't speak very well of your self-awareness.

>>2193451
Here's a similar example.