I do feel discovering realism, after almost 20 years of ignoring it, has been the biggest mental shift I've had in all my years of drawing and painting from anime.

It's like when bruce lee realized that all the eastern traditions are nothing more than BS when compared to western fighting traditions.

And I don't mean I never understood that I needed to learn realism, but I had the mistaken assumption that realism was nothing more than a slower version of photography.

And while It is a slower version of photography, is not just a mere xerox copy of nature.

Realism is not photorealism, like all the videos of faggots painting hyperrealistic portraits of will smith on youtube,

I do feel discovering realism, after almost 20 years of ignoring it, has been the biggest mental shift I've had in all my years of drawing and painting from anime.

It's like when bruce lee realized that all the eastern traditions are nothing more than BS when compared to western fighting traditions.

And I don't mean I never understood that I needed to learn realism, but I had the mistaken assumption that realism was nothing more than a slower version of photography.

And while It is a slower version of photography, is not just a mere xerox copy of nature.

Realism is not photorealism, like all the videos of faggots painting hyperrealistic portraits of will smith on youtube,