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Anonymous01/17/26, 14:17No.7860596
Anyone know of artists who successfully combine painting with linework? I need examples/pieces that have pulled it off. It can be interpreted either way: painting done under linework or painting that mimics colored pencils/pastels and is more like drawing than painting. I hope I'm able to get my point across well enough, not sure how to articulate it more clearly.
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Anon01/17/26, 14:20No.7860599
I think they're fundamentally different things
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Anon01/17/26, 14:35No.7860613
I won’t help train your AI.
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Anon01/17/26, 15:18No.7860644
It's not uncommon to find pen or graphite drawings painted with watercolor. William Blake is an example.
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Anon01/17/26, 20:02No.7860854
Closest most recognized form you'll probably get is Art Nouveau
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Anon01/17/26, 20:54No.7860892
Takato Yamamoto
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Anon01/17/26, 20:56No.7860895
Anime
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Anon01/17/26, 21:29No.7860914
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Anon01/18/26, 20:46No.7861555
Any painting that isn't a European style oil painting? That's pretty much the only style that doesn't use lines
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Anon01/21/26, 11:15No.7863668
Juan Gimenez comes to mind
I think most artists had this kind of conundrum at some point in their lives
the reality is they're completely seperate things
if you tried to mash the best linework from someone like Toppi with the best brushwork of someone like Levitan you'd end up with an incoherent mess, that'd look like shit too
so ultimately it's a mediation between the 2 sides while keeping in mind that you're inevitably losing some degree of mastery, or atleast the showmanship of it, of one of those things in service of sprouting a new symbiosis from the two
if you're fine with that then study picrel and maybe someone like Moebius but if you think you could somehow achieve mastery in both of those things and then somehow show them simultaneously at the peak of their respective showmanships then I can already tell you that's a life-long fool's errand
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Anon01/21/26, 13:09No.7863705
A lot of classic book illustrations and cover art would have the pencil sketch with the painting underneath. The digital equivalent would be having a painting with a line drawing on top. I'll post some more examples (both trad and digital).
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Anon01/21/26, 13:13No.7863706
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Anon01/21/26, 13:14No.7863707
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Anon01/21/26, 13:23No.7863709
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Anon01/21/26, 14:14No.7863731
If you look at Layendecker's work, a lot of them have outlines (though often thin), but more of interest to you (I think) would be how he shades his work - he basically hatches his shadows, which gives his work a very unique stylistic flair.I'd also strongly recommend checking out Art Nouveau works, as one of their defining characteristic is their lines.I'm sure there are artists I know that have much more bold distinct lines in their paintings, but one none are coming to mind this moment, and probably won't until this thread dies, as is the way things tend to go.
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Anon01/22/26, 06:48No.7864472
Schiele, Mucha, Klimt, Lautrec
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Anon01/26/26, 11:37No.7867742
Feng Wei
