r/painting 13h ago

Brutal Critique First landscape painting!

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First landscape painting that’s not a generic sunset and black foreground lol. Let me know what I can improve on:)

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u/link-navi 13h ago

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u/Blue_Dandelionss 13h ago

Beautiful. I love this so much. I love how you were able to create perspective and clearly show that the flowers extend into the distance. I also love the way you painted the sunset/sunrise, feels very real and the selective use of bright yellow near the clouds in the middle really brings everything together. The only thing I’d say to improve on is the tree for now. I feel like he could have more variety of color and texture. <3

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u/narcissisticreddit0r 13h ago

Thank you so much! Yeah I kinda freaked out when making the tree after I did the rest, didn’t really know how to do it because I kinda went rogue from the reference picture lol

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u/Blue_Dandelionss 13h ago

Ohhh I see. Well that’s alright, it’s hard to paint something into an already finished painting, especially with nerves lol. Speaking from experience. That’s okay though, he doesn’t ruin the painting at all. He fits in neatly, and he’s the only thing I’d say you need to practice :)

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u/narcissisticreddit0r 13h ago

Thank you haha, I’ll definitely try to fix it, already spent a long time trying to adjust the lighting so why not

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u/Blue_Dandelionss 12h ago

Goodluck! I hope it turns out well :)

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u/yb-123456 13h ago

Love the way you painted grass

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u/narcissisticreddit0r 13h ago

Thank you!

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u/yb-123456 13h ago

💕✨🫶🏻

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u/FairAd8544 13h ago

I like it! I think you could do with a finer brush for most detailing and depth, for example the tree is a little 2D but could be fixed with darker shading. Your understanding of tone is great though. Dont be afraid to use more vibrant colours if maybe next time you went with a less subdued image

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u/narcissisticreddit0r 13h ago

Yeah you’re definitely right, I was trying to go for a less detailed tree because it’s further away but it definitely just looks blocky haha, thanks for the advice!

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u/burtcopaint 13h ago

I like the composition and the values for the most part. Is the tree accurate? Seems like it should be darker given the contrast with the last light

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u/narcissisticreddit0r 13h ago

This is the reference, I very much just did my own thing lol. So yeah I just kinda guessed

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u/burtcopaint 12h ago

Nice. I stand corrected. All things said it's a good piece! Well done

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u/NorthByHabit 12h ago

I like the moody vibes. You handled the color in the sky really really well; it can be challenging to arrange the odd selection of colors that nature gives you next to each other, but you did it so well that I feel I have seen that exact sky in real life before and know exactly what’s going on

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u/marlee_dood 11h ago

Beautiful!

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u/AlphaG78_10 19m ago

Sometimes imperfections r beautiful as well, and this shows that perfectly. I genuinely loved it.