/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5235343
Well, certain artists have historically painted dead flowers and rotting fruit in order to make their SL's say something about the time they live in, etc etc.
But why on earth would you paint some dead looking little weeds when you're not Caravaggio?
SL is all about teaching yourself new things; new ways of mixing colours, new compositions, new lighting concepts, how to paint the texture of every damn thing you every come across. So when you paint real live humans in the flesh you aren't fumbling around trying to mix a flesh tone, or the hair colour, or wasting time trying to work out how folds work, or how to paint fur on clothes (or animals), or the how to compress the millions of different patterns and values on that there candlestick or mirror, or window. Then you can progress to painting outside and you only have to contend with wind, flies, people talking to you, the sun going in and coming back out after you've tried to chase the effects and shadows, fruitlessly. But at least you know how to mix the colours, kind of, because you never really painted enough green things, or brown things, or blue things, indoors. And the clouds keep moving, and so do the sheep and cows.
Solve all that and then you're GMI.