Forest Meadow

ok, decided to make a new picture with the tips I got from my last painting. This took me a bit above 4 hours to make. Im pritty pleased with it. Hand painted from scratch, tho there might be some more shadow/light and perspective errors left but i did my best anyway


[Added some highlight effect to the first picture, might still be a bit strong]

[Second one is the orginal]

The one on the right looks better. The fog, leaves, and grass looks the best out of the whole picture.

you're getting better ...keep it up

i like the ray of light in the left pic maybe you should make it shining down on something that would be cool

The picture with the light is better. I say this as blunt as possible because without the light, there is nothing to focus on. I'm not saying it's a bad forest, I'm saying it's just a forest.

Unfortunately, the clearing doesn't have anything to look at. As Dwarf Zealot said, you should add something, even small and insignificant like a few mushrooms. Don't worry if that part of the scene is more detailed, the viewer's eye will likely spend the most time there.

I'm not really much of an artist, so take this as a rough suggestion. You are definately getting better.

thanks for the comments ppl

i'll use it in the next picture

Cuuute! :D

But you still don't have any composition, no story to tell.
The one with the enhanced lighting doesn't work well like that because you have 2 very bright spots of very close intensity so you have 2 centers that catch the view, but nothing interesting happens in any of them. Chose only one of them, either the one on the grass, either the sun, and make something interesting around that spot.
And please try to paint from photos or if you can from real life, by looking through your window (even though all you see is skyscrapers, it's still good for lighting and perspective study) or if you're lucky enough and have both a laptop and a porch and a nice view, paint that (the view you see from the porch).

have you used a photoshop ivy-leave-brush?
if so... hrm...
try to draw without presets and these special brushes and all the technical templet brush stuff.

did a custom brush for the leaves, but it would have been it be pritty time consuming if i diden't used it and also less detailed.
but maybe it's the way to go as you said, to improve your skills.

to be fair i have to admit that i didnt have much experiences with these "new" ps brushes.
maybe brushes are usefull to create textures of a big mass of similar objects, i never tried out. but i guess it would nearly always look mechanicaly if you just use brushes.

The leaves don't blend at all, for this reason:
The rest of the picture looks like a painting, but the leaves look like they were put in by a computer. And also, there are some white leaves in there.

Don't stop working on it. We like it! :D