Zed A. Shaw, Painter on Twitter: "Final thing to remember is that accuracy is more a function of time and tricks than skill. If you see those photo realistic paintings that person spent 60+ hours on them and used photos the whole time, with many many layers. If it looks more like a painting, then less time.… https://t.co/YiKTVZsImK"

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Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 11

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Now I a take a break and go do work with more to come. The next step is to refine each of the big shapes to improve their drawing, how the connect to other shapes, and fine them with simple shapes internally. It's kind of a breadth first search? Divide and conquer?

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My internet at home was down all day so I finished off this painting process. Once you have the initial block-in, you next start to refine each big shape with 2-3 inner shapes. Here's me starting with the sky, and the shadow. It's subtle, but the 2nd pic here is the previous.pic.twitter.com/XqyloHz6hW

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Next repeat the process of refining inside the light rocks shapes, and fixing a bit of drawing here and there, and alter the cactus some. All is done inside the initial shapes, but moving them around here and there as needed.pic.twitter.com/q2PbgekFV9

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We now enter the "Terrible Middle Stage", where everything looks bad because it loses the strength of the first statement block-in, but doesn't have any of the refinement of the final painting. I've altered the inner shapes to 2-3 so now in this one I start refining more.pic.twitter.com/DiKP1FKapB

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During this I'm following the whole process, of finding a shape, studying it, figuring out the inner shapes, and slowly improving them. The key with this impressionist style is you don't try to do any exact details until the very end, and then you just do a few.pic.twitter.com/dzzyiYh7z4

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Now...this photo is kind of terrible because of lighting, but you see how I'm adding smaller and smaller details and altering shapes, but still not tiny things like twigs or the exact tiny little shapes of rock clusters, still simple, just now has some texture in the clouds,etc.pic.twitter.com/OLROx4mvPE

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I'm close to the end, and I can start adding in a bit of details here and there, just enough to make people think they see something. I don't paint every little twig in the shadow, just a few so it tricks you into seeing it like a bush. I also just removed that left cactus.pic.twitter.com/JgZGbEruJP

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You may look at this and think "HUGE JUMP!" between these two, but it's not *really* a big jump. I'm not completely repainting all the shapes to make them more complex. I'm just noticing a detail on a shape, then layering it on delicately with a softer touch.pic.twitter.com/kVnJdg6bN4

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Now I could stop at that, but the final thing to do is adjust the edges of the shapes to change focus, depth, field of vision, and focal plane. For example, clouds far away won't be focused or hard. Bushes on the top need to be out of focus. I just use a super soft clean brush.pic.twitter.com/rqZ1gNUrGP

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Once I'm done I can look at it as a study and think how to do it different: 1. The cactus is dumb, too straight. 2. Sky too literal blue, looked better without the clouds. 3. Rocks are great, shadow is good, plants on the top aren't defined enough. 4. Sky too light?pic.twitter.com/xiNAtp1tZE

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Final thing to remember is that accuracy is more a function of time and tricks than skill. If you see those photo realistic paintings that person spent 60+ hours on them and used photos the whole time, with many many layers. If it looks more like a painting, then less time.

5:36 PM - 11 Feb 2020