It's only monotone from someone looking, not from someone doing. If you look at digital painting tutorial, you'll see a lot of timelapse, because it's a very slow process where you spend the majority of time correcting stuff. But if you're the one doing it, each individual brush stroke is the result of a conscious decision.

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orangedog 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure; I find the job pretty boring.

	▲	emodendroket 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Working on a passion project or working through the hairy details of a complex algorithm or whatever can be fun. But that's not really what the job is like most of the time.
	▲	skydhash 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		All the boring parts I've encountered have soon been automated out of my workflow. There's the waiting part of some process, but that's why I have HN for.