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Subscriber's Painting Review & Critique

887 views · Published 16 June 2017 · 12:46 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Liron Yanconsky · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Hi everyone!

Today I'm doing something a little unusual. I will be reviewing a painting of one of my subscribers - Walking Michigan.

He offered this great idea and I thought I'd give it a try.

Here is a summary of my feedback:

1. Really good and correct drawing. The emphasis here is on correct. A correct drawing is a vital basis for a great painting.

2. The composition could use some work. You can deliberately decide to focus on a specific object, but that decision has to indeed be deliberate.

3. The values don't have enough variation - I would work on improving them and adding some stronger contrast. One thing I don't really mention in the video is the importance of a strong contrast between the sky and the house.

4. The colors. This is a matter of choice. You can decide to make them bright or a little more muted. Sometimes having only bright colors can hurt the painting's impression (something that can also be fixed by introducing very dark values, which are closer to black and will balance things out as well.

5. I love the simplification. He didn't state every single detail, but rather created the impression.

This is visible on the roof and wall's textures.

All in all he is in a great direction (:

I hope you enjoyed this video.

Also - apologies about the detail in the previous one. I had some technical challenges.

Will see you again tomorrow,

- Liron

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