MaaaaAAAAANNnnn, do I feel this a lot. There's a lot of thin-line art that's very beautiful and clearly done with technical acuity but...always feels like something is missing. There's other thin-line art that feels much more meaty, so obviously it's not all. Like you say, clarity is a big factor, one of a couple. (Almost as if there was an entire style based around such a thing--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire )
(not mentioned on there but relevant to sleaze due to her underground comix work: Trina Robbins)
If I may be navel gazing for a bit, it reminds me of how friends and acquaintances will point out my thinness in lineart as a positive--and that's interesting to me, because I can see where I could have been influenced in doing the same by accident (mostly shoujo manga is a big obvious one lol, along with some anime character designers), but at the same time, I keep looking at my art and going "damn, idk y'all, my stuff looks like it's thicker compared to the current zeitgeist." Along with comments of my art looking retro (which I take as a positive) and folks wondering why my stuff doesn't hit harder with the general populace under my sfw handle...*shrug emoji* It feels a lot like surface > anything is what people prefer. I'm sure some sociologist will connect the dots to how the current hellscape is though LMAO.
I also tend to concentrate on other things before my lines, like expressions or posing, so that's why I oft feel like my lines are messy. I mean, I like them but apparently only certain people are allowed to have messy lines LEL
But yeah, I also am with you in terms of drawing vs seeing in art. If I tell someone that I consider George Pérez or Keiji Gotoh to be inspirations and always feel like drawing after rifling through my own stash, I would understandably get confused reactions. Gotoh may be closer because anime dude, but both are vastly different styles to my own or even from other "genres." But both have a dynanmicness to them that I absolutely have always leaned towards, and aim to try to do in my own work.
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Date: 2025-02-13 09:24 pm (UTC)(not mentioned on there but relevant to sleaze due to her underground comix work: Trina Robbins)
If I may be navel gazing for a bit, it reminds me of how friends and acquaintances will point out my thinness in lineart as a positive--and that's interesting to me, because I can see where I could have been influenced in doing the same by accident (mostly shoujo manga is a big obvious one lol, along with some anime character designers), but at the same time, I keep looking at my art and going "damn, idk y'all, my stuff looks like it's thicker compared to the current zeitgeist." Along with comments of my art looking retro (which I take as a positive) and folks wondering why my stuff doesn't hit harder with the general populace under my sfw handle...*shrug emoji* It feels a lot like surface > anything is what people prefer. I'm sure some sociologist will connect the dots to how the current hellscape is though LMAO.
I also tend to concentrate on other things before my lines, like expressions or posing, so that's why I oft feel like my lines are messy. I mean, I like them but apparently only certain people are allowed to have messy lines LEL
But yeah, I also am with you in terms of drawing vs seeing in art. If I tell someone that I consider George Pérez or Keiji Gotoh to be inspirations and always feel like drawing after rifling through my own stash, I would understandably get confused reactions. Gotoh may be closer because anime dude, but both are vastly different styles to my own or even from other "genres." But both have a dynanmicness to them that I absolutely have always leaned towards, and aim to try to do in my own work.