/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4869500
There is no one great trick. Just start with the background and work your way forward for complicated stuff and for more loose work, just paint everything at once and keep your pace up, so you're not bogged down in one area. For composition just remember that real life is constant, so you're always going to be on the lookout for asymmetric balance and golden ratios. Take photos of everything that looks like a good composition and pick out the good ones. Paint those. Eventually you will want to paint outside from observation. I can tell you that painting running water in the winter is the most gigachad experience possible. There is nothing like painting with your fingers cold, when you cant feel the brush.

>>3524306
That water should have a cast light / (slight) color reflection onto the underside of the brush. (That amount of light is going to be severely limited by whatever is coming from the sky) - [seems as if your using incandescent bulbs in photographing this piece, judging from your whitest white] - {which you should replace with daylight bulbs, asap} The arm is passable. The waves, you should paint with a reference. I can tell they are waves, but they don't have the translucent quality of water. Your singular blue that you've used different values off comes off as flat. The clouds are my favorite part. You have a lot of work to do, but conceptually it's not terrible. If you're entire goal of the piece conceptually is to represent a paintbrush literally creating a wave, you better make it a nice fucking wave.