/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

ok i think i'm back to square one now. i tried to take into consideration the sinix video and tried to do what he did with his rough paintings of two guys from the shoulders up before he did the refined painting that took up the latter half of his video, but this just feels like i've gone back to what i did here >>5036431

>use bigger shapes to capture the forms and dont worry about making it so illustrative, remember youre trying to paint so start with big shapes first and then work toward more complexity

i also tried this, but since working with such large rough forms is so imprecise, i honestly don't know where to go from here as far as making it more detailed is concerned. i can make something fine and illustrative from the get go like i did with the last one, or i can make it rough like this and the one i did two attempts ago where greater dynamic range is more easily achieved, but i don't know how to start here and refine it into being finer and more illustrative, it's like they're two separate paths and i have to go down one or the other. basically i don't understand how to combine the methodology behind achieving those two different priorities into one unified process.

it's like the structure of the whole thing has to be built from the start to prioritize either fine illustrative detail, or value complexity. i know learning is hard, but god damn this is so frustrating. why is my brain doing this. it almost makes me want to give up and just go back to the oil brush technique i was doing before where one painting takes 50 retarded hours because at least i understand that intuitively and it doesn't make want to punch a hole in the wall.