So I know these aren't that good, but you can give me a few tips.
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Name's Freyja, and I'd be happy to try to give you a few tips!
Comments for BOTH of the paintings:
First of all, I'm noticing a lot of white spots. When you paint, you want to make sure to cover as much of the canvas (or paper, or whatever you paint on--I just call it your canvas) as possible. If you see white, go back over that empty space with more paint. The white spots detract from a painting majorly.
I'm not seeing much blending. it looks like most of the sections are all just one color with no shadows or highlights, and it makes it look sort of flat. When you look at things in real life, or when you look at your model when you're painting, pay attention to where the light source is and try to reproduce it. The more you practice that, the more it'll jump off the page.
Comments for the first painting:
I'm not really sure what that is. Anyway, it looks sort of messy, a lot of white spots especially where the colors in the background meet. Also, I think that merging those colors would make it look better. They end abruptly, so next time you do something like that, for example, first paint the blue at the top, and while that's still wet, bring in the green, blending the place where they're supposed to meet. Then just keep doing that. If you're using tempera, which (correct me if I'm wrong) it looks like you did, you can re-wet that to a degree and blend it. Composition-wise, I'm not quite sure why the random lines are in the background, but blending them would make it a little bit better, since I'm assuming the squiggly thing is the focus of the painting, and the random lines detract from that. But the first painting is sort of abstract, so other than making it a bit smoother, it's pretty aesthetically pleasing as far as that goes. I think it looks kind of cool and a little bit reminiscent of native artwork.
Comments for the second painting:
Has pretty much the same problems as the first, except that the toucan shows a LOT of improvement. Honestly, I quite like the style the toucan is in. It's also a little bit abstract, but that works with the colors and all. The composition is interesting; now you need to make the viewer's attention go to the bird. Right now, it goes first to the bird, and then sort of gets distracted by the background. And that's mostly because the background has a lot of white. The toucan does, too, but the background is where most of that problem is. Then, make sure you add shadows and highlights. Also it would help a lot to try and represent the texture of the toucan's feathers, the texture of the leaves and bark on the trees and shrubbery...right now, they look like...well, I don't want to sound bad, but a little bit like those green jello molds with fruit they sell at supermarkets. Just adding light and dark spots would help that immensely! Also there needs to be a sky, which sort of goes back to filling your canvas completely.
Anywho.
These show potential, definitely! And for some reason, I do really like that toucan. He'll be GREAT with some work! Just make sure you pay attention and fill the canvas with color, represent different shades, and clean up the white spots and add texture. Those are some easy fixes and you'll see a lot of improvement just doing that.
Hope this helped, and looking forward to seeing you paint more!
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What tempera? I used left over paint from a paint-by-number.
I have a really cool picture I did, But I don't know where it is.
Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass? Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even *I'm* eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
Oh, okay. Paint by number is usually (from what I've seen) watercolor, tempera, or acrylic...the first two will blend with water, but acrylic won't. It all depends on what sort of paint you're using how you do it, but so long as you blend while it's wet, you're good.
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Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass? Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even *I'm* eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
The biggest advice: get rid of that white!!! The rest takes time and patience, and learning different techniques and finding your own style. Your lines are pretty sloppy, and I can see you really don't have much experience (sorry if I'm wrong, but that's the impression I got...) Really, advice will only get you so far - working on your technique will help a lot. Maybe get a how-to-draw book that looks like it's at the right difficulty level, and get a sketchbook to practice styles, textures, shading, the works. It's also good for a boost of confidence to look back and see improvement. Hope this helped a little. ~StoryWeaver
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You are right. These are like the first two I did. But I did do some when I was really little. Thanks, Jungle
Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass? Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even *I'm* eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
And, on a mostly unrelated note, I think you need to invest in some nice, thick, canvas. Or, lacking that (because it can be expensive), find yourself a big old piece of wood (seal it first unless you are using acrylic). It looks like your paper is buckling a little bit from all the moisture in the paint, and on something a little more durable you can paint over what you already have and get rid of all that white!
Paramedic Writer Crazy Nije vas zahvatila druga kušnja osim ljudske. Ta vjeran je Bog: neæe pustiti da budete kušani preko svojih sila, nego æe s kušnjom dati i ishod da možete izdržati.
I thought about using canvas, But I'm always afraid that I might goof up. I just begin so That's why I use paper.
Jungle
Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass? Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even *I'm* eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
Actually, canvas is very forgiving. I think you will find that if you do "mess up," you can always paint over what you already had (unless you are using watercolor). I have half a dozen painting sandwiches in my room, where I have three or four paintings on top of each other on the same canvas.
Paramedic Writer Crazy Nije vas zahvatila druga kušnja osim ljudske. Ta vjeran je Bog: neæe pustiti da budete kušani preko svojih sila, nego æe s kušnjom dati i ishod da možete izdržati.
Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass? Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even *I'm* eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
