• That's not a seascape

    Ah you're right. I blame sleep deprivation lol

    well not any I want any fuckin thing to do with

    it's the canadian view of the niagara falls

  • What seascape? That's Niagara Falls.

    You're totally right, but when I noticed it was too late and I can't change the title lmao

    In my defense, I was running on like 4 hours of sleep

    You said the n word

  • Just four easy steps!

  • Step 1: paint

    Step 2: congratulations!

  • I get the impression this is someone's process instead of being intended as a tutorial.

    Yeah and while the steps are large. If you're in that field then it makes sense.

  • Looks easy 🫠

  • As an artist, I would argue that this is a reasonable step by step of the main stages. It doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be a full tutorial, just a guide of the major phases. The only thing that bothers me is that the sketch stage would have a horizon line if I were doing it.

    It did definitely help me understand the process better.

    Yeah I feel like another more detailed sketch and then just throwing down the foundation of color between 1 and 2 would have made this fascinating.

    The water honestly isnt bad for pic 2. Filling that in makes sense to me. It's the mist and clouds that make it a massive step lol. That said, I've basically never painted and found it interesting.

  • Thats literally how you do it though, like just because it looks complicated doesnt mean they arent giving you the steps

    Its step by step not detail by detail

    Step 1: draw vague land silhouette.

    Step 2: cast magic to draw waterfall perfectly???

    Step by step is cool, manifesting water silhouette perfectly is not.

    i cast: draw waterfall!

    Tbh with some techniques, it's actually not hard. You put a few blobs of color down and then you blur them in one direction and you get a very good imitation of water. So that second stepoght have literally taken like 10-15 min, depending on how actually detailed it is, but I can't tell too well since the image is kinda small.

    So you are telling me this guide needs another guide.

    It's not a guide, it's someone showing the steps of their process, there's nothing here that says this is a tutorial.

    Step one draw the general shape you want, step two add color, step three shading and lighting, step four add details

    Nah, you're doing what overly familiar people do; skipping steps. If this was an actual tutorial it would have steps for lines at the back and shading in certain spots. The "underpaint" is mislabelled and has a level of detail your average person still couldn't pull off.This is grossly over-simplified.

    I don’t think it’s meant to be a tutorial for people who don’t already know how to paint, more a painter communicating their process to other painters.

    Level of detail is dumb all you have to do is start somewhere and just keep adding details until your happy with it

    Again, if you're not familiar, this is terrible advice. You're just imposing your own wants and experience onto what instructions should be.

    Also even if you're familiar this is kinda bad. This is teaching pretty basic level stuffs, the harder part is imagining the perspectives and shapes, or even how to shade the running water. Neither are covered well here.

    I don't think it's teaching anything tho? It's an artist showing the steps of their process.

    Sorry, did I miss the step between 1 and 2 where they add a waterfall???

    The rest? Sure that is correct. Didn't see any water sketched out though. And a bit more picky comment: even the general shape is not complete, as it lacks depth on the left crater.

    All of those complaints are literally about details

    The water fall is added when you add the color

    And the depth your saying it lacks is literally added in step 2

    They started with the general shape not a complete detailed sketch

  • I know it’s not the point but I love that I’m 99% sure i recognize exavy where this is lol

  • turns out im actually pretty good at "sketching"