in this video right here i'm going to share with you how
this painting right here is going to fix a ton of your simple painting mistakes here we go
now you're probably wondering how is this painting gonna help you well this is my third painting
i ever did and it looks pretty good and it probably looks something a lot like
yours but it has so many simple mistakes in it that are easily correctable and when i do live
streams right here on this channel where i take a look at viewer submitted art and give critiques
and feedback i see a lot of the same mistakes and their paintings that i see in this one here
so i'm gonna live critique this painting right here load it into photoshop so that
way you can be aware of the mistakes and how to fix them and correct issues as we go through so
let's do that all right we're over the computer and please forgive if my image looks a little
dusty in some spots because that is actual dust on the painting this is before i discovered varnish
to protect my painting the first common mistake most new artists have when doing a painting
are clouds and you're going to notice that a lot of my clouds right here are faded away and this
is due to the fact that my brush strokes were way too hard when it comes to making clouds you need
to learn to have a very soft and ginger touch when brushing up giving movement to your clouds which
means clouds will be moving up in this general direction giving them more formation and also
when you're going to brush across to work out the brush strokes as you can see on my painting here i
did entirely too hard which is why you see all these very very horizontal harsh brush strokes
big mistake number two on my painting is you will see nothing but triangles happening in my mountain
and that really distracts from the painting here nature really doesn't grow in straight lines to
improve this i really should have taken my knife and added a few more bumps in ridges leading up to
this as it would come across then i could cheat and draw down on the back of my palette knife
a little bit of an angle for highlights and snow and this would allow me to realize where
my shadow side is going to be which would be on my left side here illustrated by the green which
i can highlight just to give you guys a quick example this would give me a better representation
and a more natural look as i come down and on my highlight side i can meet up in certain aspects
creating awesome valleys or just coming straight down into particular points adding to a more
natural feel of my mountain and sadly i didn't do that so here's what i have and here's what i kind
of should have done painting triangles is perhaps one of the most common things i see from brand new
painters and that's fine when you're starting out but as you get a little more confidence you
know what you can do make a triangle but then go back over it and have a little bit more of a shaky
hand and more ridges and kind of level things out or give some extreme peaks i'm telling you it's
going to look weird at first but when you go back and you add highlights and shadows on top of it
it's going to look a thousand times better common mistake number three is my mountains are just way
too big i mean look at them you've probably done this too i should have painted my mounts way up
here this actually would help with two things one is it's going to help create a forced perspective
that these mountains are way in the background number two is it's actually going to allow me
to play more with my mid ground and also create a better foreground that's going to be more detailed
also that's going to help push this mountain further back creating a forced perspective which
is really going to build depth in your painting common mistake number four is all about the laying
of land i want you at the beginning to stay away from curved lines when throwing in
your landscapes if you want to build appropriate curves and angles you want to build depth by
using straight lines each one of these lines is going to illustrate a snow bank or riverbank or
whatever you want or bushes in our foreground and naturally by drawing these straight lines
each one of these lines would build depth because each one would be its own plane but as you tap
them in you're naturally forcing the eye to come down into a natural curved motion which looks like
the river is curving in this general direction and then you can accentuate your riverbanks by by
tapping on snow making rocks on top or even adding water lines which would really help over on this
right hand side because it would look like water is coming around going into a cove and then coming
back out and continuing down the river you want to try to use straight lines as best as possible on a
2d platform like a painting that's going to force the eye into a perspective to make it think it's
looking at a 3d image i hope that makes sense this is a really tough one to talk about unless you're
visually looking at your own painting essentially stay away from curved lines and just add a bunch
of straight lines which are going to be planes in your painting that would eventually make up the
curve of the landscape all right common mistake number five is what is happening in this bottom
right hand corner and no it's not my cabin i actually think my cabin looks pretty darn decent
it's the highlights that are happening down here in the bottom left-hand corner you can see i'm
having major issues from issues to where i can't get them to stick to where it's pushing through
to get the background of the river which means i'm getting mud mixing and i'm just not getting
them to stick at all i'm pushing through to bare canvas so what's causing this to happen well it's
the fact that i don't have enough paint on my paintbrush so when i go to push in these sections
i'm not getting anything to stick i'm just either grabbing background color or i'm pushing through
to bare canvas make sure for your highlight color you have ample enough paint on your paintbrush and
make sure that paint that's on your paintbrush is a nice creamy texture so when you push it on
top of firmer paint it will stick and come off and create a beautiful texture for highlights
now that you're aware of these mistakes i uh know that you're not gonna make them as often which
means your confidence is gonna grow and every painting from here on out is gonna be way better
you're welcome a little pat on the back for me now if you need any more help with your paintings or
painting process on this channel here every so often we do live streams where i help you out
with user submitted art and give you feedback and critiques and show you exactly what we did
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where i'll see you there with my uh my awesome hair check you all later and of course peace