Hi, nice painting! Here is my overpaint. I want to bring your attention towards shadow shapes, and shapes in general. In m over paint I've painted patches of light and shadow with sharp bolder shapes, later if I woild be satisfied with graphic read of those shapes, I would bring more softness to the edges. Paint forms more with local color, hue shift, rather than darken them with black. ALso paint true simplifiied forms volumes for your elements, for example leaves should be gropuped as sperical objects and follow already established light direction. Lastly I have used more atmospheriic perspective, to suggest forse is swallowed by it, to build depth, I would avoid using same dark value to paint every tree up to the end of view plane. Hope it gives you some ideas, keep up the good work!

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Wayne Rankin · 2026-10-10T01:39:47.342Z

i created a generic forest background just using shape design and various brushes ,no line art. Main concern i have is as always is the layout and lighting.Any feedback is greatly appreiciated.

@wojciechbajor1 week ago

Hi, nice painting! Here is my overpaint. I want to bring your attention towards shadow shapes, and shapes in general. In m over paint I've painted patches of light and shadow with sharp bolder shapes, later if I woild be satisfied with graphic read of those shapes, I would bring more softness to the edges. Paint forms more with local color, hue shift, rather than darken them with black. ALso paint true simplifiied forms volumes for your elements, for example leaves should be gropuped as sperical objects and follow already established light direction. Lastly I have used more atmospheriic perspective, to suggest forse is swallowed by it, to build depth, I would avoid using same dark value to paint every tree up to the end of view plane. Hope it gives you some ideas, keep up the good work!

@wayne091121 week ago

Thank you wojciechbajor for you advice and feedback. i had a feeling (and bad habit) that using black/dark grey for shadows was a issue and will definately take note of your advice.

forest

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