Reminds me of an interesting comparison between the minds of the painters Raphael and Leonardo - the former was much more prolific (and successful at the time)

Reminds me of an interesting comparison between the minds of the painters Raphael and Leonardo - the former was much more prolific (and successful at the time) because he had a template and would crank out art, whereas Leonardo would spend countless hours digging into the underlying context (literally studying muscles and tendons under the skin), which led him to make more impactful pieces by being able to do things like lighten the shadow on a chin due to the reflection of the light on the rest of a body, rather than a hard shadow.