Stop it! Just STOP IT! Stop zooming in on your digital art! I know it’s hard and some times we have to zoom in to see what we are doing (especially when working on a big canvas). But you have to stop zooming in too far.

How far is too far you may ask. Go to your favorite art spot. Look at an art piece. Did you zoom in? Outside of blowing it up to you screen size you probably didn’t, unless you had a good reason, or you mouse wheel stuck. The only reason people zoom in is to see how it was constructed, not to enjoy it. Only you, other artists, and that one guy who can’t tell if it’s AI or not are the ONLY people zooming in on your art. The casual observer looks at it at whatever size they can get and experience the piece. They don’t care and will never even see that you colored three pixels out of that line, or that this line has a seven pixel gap.

What you are doing when you fixate on some tiny detail that no one will ever see or care about is you are robbing yourself. You are stealing your own time. Let it go and move on. You are also feeding your perfectionism and your impostor syndrome (if you suffer with these things). Now I want you to go zoom in on some professional art. Dose every line meet perfectly? No they don’t, and that’s okay.
What we are doing when we do art is creating an illusion. That’s not really a person, or a car, or a dinosaur, or a dinosaur eating a person while driving a car on your canvas. We create the illusion that you see a dinosaur eating a person while driving a car. And the human brain loves being tricked into believing it and helps out a lot. It will fill in gaps in the casual viewer’s mind so that you don’t have to pixel hunt! Now don’t get lazy with it, make sure that your figures have the right number of fingers and eyes, but you don’t have to make every wrinkle in the hand and draw every eyelash!
Now go out there and make something amazing! And STOP ZOOMING!