One comment at the gallery opening changed how I frame my digital prints

I was at a small show in Portland last month, just showing some of my fantasy landscapes on canvas. An older guy came up and said 'your backgrounds are incredible but your foreground bushes look like plastic toys.' He was totally right. I had been using the same generic brush pack for 3 years without thinking about it. That night I went home and started building my own texture brushes from scratch. Now I spend 2 hours before every project just testing new foreground elements. Has anyone else had a stranger's honest critique completely shift their workflow?

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miab8717d ago

Honestly, that's such a great point. Ngl, a random stranger told me my shadows were too muddy at a craft fair last year and it messed me up for a whole week before I realized they were absolutely right. Tbh, I had been using the same default soft round brush for literally everything and my faces looked like dolls. Now I spend like an hour just messing with brush settings on a scrap canvas before I even touch my main piece. It's wild how one offhand comment can break a bad habit you didn't even know you had.

aaron70816d ago

@miab87 facts, that soft round brush is a trap.