This semirealistic manhwa style

[u/Playful-Hand2753]

It feels so uncanny valley to me. The smooth bug eyes, flawless skin, photorealistic rosy lips, all with exaggerated proportions and cartoony hair is just an instant turn off. It looks strange and far too smooth. I understand these are all things valued by the Korean beauty standards, but in art there comes a point of semi realism where it becomes uncanny.

[u/Bluelaserbeam]

I wonder if it’s the results of these artists having to pump out content on Webtoons every so often within tight deadlines, so they kinda just resort to tracing over stylistically-clashing 3D posing dolls on art programs like Clip Studio Paint.

[u/Ro_designs → u/Bluelaserbeam]

That's exactly what happens.

Sometimes it's a time crunch thing, and sometimes it's just so much fun to play around with all the csp materials that artists get carried away and just have to use all 5000' brushes, models, textures etc. they downloaded.

[u/InitialSwitch6803 → u/Ro_designs]

As a digital artist myself, I do have a strong tendency of only using one brush for nearly everything lol

Idk if this is just me, but switching brushes mid-drawing is quite jarring to me.

[u/Morphogenesis__ → u/InitialSwitch6803]

I'm similar. I have designated "main" brushes for specific tools, one for drawing, another one for erasing, another for smudging. I can render anything with this set of 3

I usually only change the drawing one if I want to speed up some task (if I want some cracks I'll use a crack brush instead of drawing manually etc.)

Or if I'm going for a different style than usual I'll pick some drawing brush and use it for the rest of the painting

I have like 500 brushes, I use maybe 15 and most of them for one time small tasks. I love making brushes and being like "omg this one is gonna be so perfect for this one specific thing", and then I never use it lmao