✨ Not rendered vs. Rendered Art! ✨
One of my friends asked me, what's rendering? Since we're both in the art sphere, I made these two pictures to show what rendering is :)
In digital art, and in traditional art, "rendering" means "refining" something. You draw over things, blend things, correct things, introduce new shapes/colors to correct something, smooth stuff, and go deep into detail, all to make your piece look 3D, realistic, or simply better 😂
( Some artists prefer not to render! Depending on the style, it can be completely unnecessary :3 )
Rendering in illustration is often overlooked, especially if you didn't see the drawing beforehand. The initial stage of a drawing is rough & basic. You can see my lines, the shapes I was using, and the colors are not quite right. Many speedpaints may also not start redering until they have a value drawing, with varying grey unrefined shapes.
During rendering (one of the most lengthy art processes out there) you can smooth things, erase lines, correct shadows, correct lights, adjust colors, etc. The options are limitless, but basically, you're trying to get your bare-bones drawing to look finalized while correcting mistakes. My parrot looks more 3D and smooth because I rendered it (slightly). It's mostly line-less, adjusted, and shaped slightly different in some places. To do this, I had to go over every piece of the drawing ^^;
I hope this explanation makes sense! 💖
( Honorable mention for 3D animators: "rendering" is the stage of exporting the finished animation with models, added effects, calculated light + shadows into a final .mp4 file by the program. It can take hours! 🥰 the output is usually very polished tho, so... it's worth it? )
