/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5226288
Ontop of my head Fenghua Zhong, Horace Hsu, Peter Mohrbacher, Tianhua Xu
And if you want something better than Sakimichan, literally just browse the 2d section of ArtStation and you'll find a ton of artist who know how to render skin so the character doesn't look like an uncanny sex doll with meme shit lighting. Look up competent digital artists working as illustrators for big companies. They're all exponentially better than her and you should study from them instead of the lazy patreon onetrick if you want to get good.

>>3832849
Despite all I said I'm much in the same spot, I do find traditional to have that little something that makes it have more "soul" a lot of the time but love drawing digitally too much to really get into it outside of sketchbooks.
Pic related is one I like a lot. I like some of old Ruan Jia paintings too, as well as some of Chomoran's and Takehito Harada's work. The way they use colors and effects is something I don't really see done in traditional painting, and I think that's where muh "soul" comes from, when they use the medium they're working on to make things only it is able to do as well.

Its digital but it looks so animated and simply rendered , too many digital artist dont understand that less is more