(06-07-2016, 04:35 AM)BadWoolf Wrote: Hi there :)

I love the studies you've been doing. Next time you do a study in colour, really focus on observing the colours correctly, because in your current studies they aren't always 100% there. Try laying in the colour, then using the colour picker tool to check the colour on the original image and compare that to what you've put in your study. You might find that the original is more red, or less saturated, or darker etc. Then go back to your study and try to lay in the colour again, making it more accurate to the original. If you want to really challenge your colour observation, try to copy the subtle shifting skin tones from master paintings by artists like Bouguereau. Over time you'll find that your first guess will start to get much closer to whatever you're studying.

Love the palette and atmosphere of your most recent WIP with the fallen tree. Maybe you can add more variation to the trees. At the moment they are all the same basic shape except for the one tree that fell down (which looks taller than the other trees), and the forest looks a bit too uniform. Maybe some of the trees bend in the trunk. Maybe there's some other foliage in there. Maybe some of them have more branches lower down, maybe some of them the roots are more covered by snow. Do some tree studies and you'll get ideas about how to play with their form. The other thing to consider is that the tree probably fell down for a reason and maybe whatever that reason was it affected the other trees - so there might be other trees in the background that got broken or fell down a bit, or whatever. As long as you keep within a tight value range, adding stuff like that won't detract attention from your focal point.

I hope that helps, or gives you some ideas. Great work!