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>My point wasn't necessarily that you can just get away with doing anything
>the artist is given a lot of leeway with these details he makes up
I think you are somehow both overestimating and underestimating this at the same time. You do get a lot of “leeway” - assuming that you’ve already put in A Lot of training. And even then it also depends on your audience and how long you expect them to be looking at your finished work. Something like a single manga panel will be able to “pass” far easier than a poster or a book cover.
The shading in the OP pic you’re describing as decent, for instance, would have been okay for a webcomic or manga panel, but outside of that use case it’s honestly too wonky and off to make sense.
The longer you look at it, the more you realise how strange and contorted her anatomy looks, in part due to the shadows making areas pop in ways they shouldn’t . Even from the thumbnail her shoulder looks off

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Just a warning, i'm a retard, I am aware.So are light and shadows in drawings that aren't hyperfocused on realism just mostly made up?…

Just a warning, i'm a retard, I am aware.
So are light and shadows in drawings that aren't hyperfocused on realism just mostly made up?…