Stumbled on a wild stat about how many layers people use in their digital paintings

I was reading through some old threads on a digital art forum last night, and someone posted a breakdown from a 2023 survey. Apparently the average digital artist uses around 80 layers per finished piece, but some horror stories went up to 300 plus. That blew my mind because I usually max out at maybe 15 layers before my laptop starts crying for mercy. The survey was from some art school blog, so take it with a grain of salt. But has anyone else found that their layer count is way lower or higher than that average?

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garcia.casey5d ago

Bet half those "layers" are just people not merging stuff.

diana3145d ago

Not merging stuff" is totally what gets me lol. I had a buddy who bragged about always being under 10 layers because he was a "purist" but then I saw his actual process and he was just painting everything on one layer and using the undo button as a crutch. Makes me wonder if the 300 layer people are just really organized or really chaotic.