Forgiveness

[jeroentje]

I see what you mean. I like the zoomed out one. I think it's gorgeous, but if it is not what you were after...
It makes me think of what happens when walking towards a Rembrandt. From a distance it looks perfect as life, but when you push your nose next to it, it almost looks like a Jackson Pollock (spelling?) painting, specially the cloth textures.

It seems that the roughness is only in your details (like you detailed in roughness, if that makes sense). It's not in the piece itself. Zooming out will make the details disappear, so you end up without the detailed roughness and just the clean base of the piece.

If you really wish to roughen up your style, may I suggest that you try doing something completely different for a while, and try to make some really wild stuff, with big nondetailed strokes.
What worked for me is to make some very fast 4 minute marker concept sketches (like 2 min sketching, 1 min to trace/ink it and 1 min to kick in the shadows with only 1 cool gray marker) for a couple of weeks, like 10 a day. I can jump back and forward between clean and rough now or combine those (how effectively I learned that is not up to me to judge ;) ).

Anyway, hope this helped. I am always very pleased to see work of you here.
jeroentje :beer:

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