Just my two cents: This lesson series should come with a warning label. While it's super jam-packed with useful info, I'm dying for an exercise that demonstrates the usefulness of the software techniques that's not an 18-hour marathon of blood, sweat, and tears. The lineart alone for something this elaborate, is likely >1 hour long for most people. If you aren't completely adept at oil painting already (like me), then arriving at something that approaches the 5 minute mark of this video, is another hour. A cell shading example would've sufficed to show the usefulness of all the different layer masks without demoralizing newbies to digital painting. Maybe include exercises of varying difficulty? If this series is meant for professionals only, and I'm just here by mistake, apologies in advance--I missed the notice.

2h 15min later, i realized my resolution is making all my brush strokes look like crap. don't make this same mistake of just rolling with the default settings. couldn't even finish this one, it was so dissatisfying.

i'm realizing i don't think i know how to shade an egg. Jon added so much stuff I didn't see and made it look so sexy. in contrast, i felt i could spend an eternity on this drawing and it would just get more bizarre and geometric. ::sobs::