Landscape studies
5mo
Braydon Piper
Hello, these are some landscape studies from recently, I can’t post the actual paintings because of the file size so I took screenshots. I obviously need to keep studying the fundamentals I’m learning but was wondering if anything sticks out that I could do better. I spent the least amount of time on the rocky beach one and it was the most difficult for me because of the water so it’s definitely more messy than the other two.
The biggest issue is that everything looks flat because all the lighting is flat. To give dimension you need a shadow side and light side.
Also, you need to add atmospheric perspective to make things in the far background recede and not fight for attention with the foreground. This includes softening the edges, lowering contrast, and desaturating the colors.
You need to also vary your color choices, everything is the same color through out the whole scene. Add some variation of warm and cool colors.
I did a quick paint over to show you what I mean, it's very rough but you should see what I'm getting at :)
thank you! This is super helpful, I definetly see a big difference with the paint over.
