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"How much time does it take you to work on all these details?"

Is a question that comes up every once in a while on the more detailed images I create and for the longest time, I didn't know myself.

The cause of this is my multi-piece working system, which means that I'm working on more than one piece at any given art creating session. I can work on inking a picture for most of an hour, then take a break, get away from the desk to flex my body a bit, make tea and return only to put the ink away, to finish up a sketch or work on a completly new ink/sketch.

This results in some inks taking more than a few days to complete, not even mentioning times when I switch media, from traditional to digital, putting some half-made inks/sketches on hold for weeks.

So back in early 07.2024 I made this little experiment on one of the more complex ink pieces I was working on at that time (and a one with a high-priority, meaning it required me to finish it within a reasonable time frame).

I kept watch on the clock and I took a photo every 30 minutes while I worked on this art trade piece https://www.patreon.com/posts/108781520

It took me under 4h of inking to take the image from pencil to ink (added 30min, because of some little touch-ups after erasing the pencil and extra sketching up the background details once the characters were mostly inked) over the course of 5 days. So if I'd have to guesstimate, the image took around 10h to complete, including sketching and adding digital colors.

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Silvador

Insanely. Genuinely impressed by not only the level of detail, but the commitment and dedication. A true artist in every sense of the word.

Fluff Dragon

Thanks for sharing this timelapse, about one of your most detailed one. I feel like attending an art class xD So you draw the thicker border lines early (I guess everyone has their own method, I usually draw the thicker borders after Inking the entire bodies) Then I also see you don't follow a fixed order for inking, looks a relaxing way for the inki process 10hrs? In my opinion is pretty fast especially for this not easy perspective view of the sheep anatomy and all the detailed textures. You are truly a master

Coyotek

Yes, I treat the character outlines with the same rules as any other inked lines. Whenever I do ink, I usually start with the head and then move my attention to other parts of the body. Once the characters are around 50-60% done, I start putting lines on the background, often pencil sketching in the lacking details. I work this way because it's cleaner and less "noisy" - with my level of detail, sketching it all in, would create such a jungle of lines, that even I would have issues with following "what is what" when inking. The principle is that characters are the core of the piece, with that, background I do rather roughly on the initial sketch - often just doing some basic lines for shapes of the more massive objects and/or perspective direction (nowadays I even simply just write what'll be here, like "locker" on the background behind the sheep girls head here). My "order" is that +50% of the characters as a start. Also later I like to "cut" the piece into cells - creating borders of objects/spaces with solid lines, then filling those objects/spaces with details (on the right side you can see a mobile table with barber supplies, here I created a window, then filled it up with extra detail - bottles, or how I firstly drawn the solid frame of the lockers, then detailed the metal doors). Going to be honest and tell you that I do find sketching to be the most exhausting part of creating art. Because you've got nothing else then the vague image in your imagination. Creating something fun from nothing is hard. Inking and coloring are easier, since you've already got a base image to follow, you just need to improve upon it :D

Coyotek

I am doing my best and improving my best over time :3 Also do expect the ink of your commission later on the week~

Miserwenos

Coś pięknego! ❤️🔥

Lone_Tiger

Dude you are a wizard! To get that much inking done in a little over 4 hours!? That kind of detail would easily take me 8 plus hours just to ink, if I could even pull it off. lol Thanks for sharing