good lighting and shadow goes a long way even without an awful lot of detail. Sometimes you just want to make an impression of detail and one of the tricks to good art is knowing what to leave out and how top decieve people into believing there is more there than what they are actually seeing.
All this stuff comes from experience which comes from a lot of practice, just like coding really.
All this stuff comes from experience which comes from a lot of practice, just like coding really.