90min Landscape Painting
3yr
Jeremias Fritsch
Hey Artists! This is a Painting I just did. I am trying to stay a bit more abstract so this is not intended to be a copy of my reference! This is how I start before doing a colored Painting of a Landscape. Sort of a base for a clean Colorvalue structure. Is there anything that you think could be improved? My Inspiration is John Park. https://www.artstation.com/jparked
@12thevil @Roman Gubskii Thank you both for your Advice! I tryed including it as best as I could in this Image. I am not super happy with the sadows in the main Rock shape. Overall I think this turned out well but what do you think based on the critique before and in general?
Looks really good. The thing with the shadow, I think, is that it's too sharp on top. Like my eyes were caught by it immediately. It make it looks like the cliff is flat, like it was cut with a knife. On the reference you can see that this edge is more subtle, there are some small forms here and there so the light shapes make the edge smoother a bit.
Your tonal structure is rock solid (see what I did there?) but the image itself is not very interesting In my opinion. I think it's missing contrast. Not tonal contrast, but contrast of shapes. You have your dominant shape in the middle, but there isn't anything to complement it like subordinate and subdominant shapes that take you around the canvas. You could also experiment with different textures, not just rocky texture, again to add contrast. The OG pic is not very interesting on its own so I understand that you have little to start with but you can always add stuff as you see fit. Also I fell it's a little bit out of balance with too much weight to the right of the image and not much to balance it on the left. Finally your frontal plane seems to be the same tone as your background plane, so that's something to take into account. I'm kind of a crappy artist so take all this with a grain of salt. keep up that good work.
You've captured the scene pretty good. I like the brushwork on your piece. The only thing I'd change is make background lighter in value to add more contrast. Right now It mixes a bit with the middle and foreground. (Sorry for my English))
