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Indubitably very knowledgeable

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Practicing finding a good level of detail when painting

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Lately I've been working on my brush economy, meaning trying to get the painting done in a fewer strokes. I really love more painterly look but I have a really bad habit of overworking my paintings.

I have not set any specific stroke or time limit for myself, but one limit I've set is not to zoom higher than 50% and generally trying to work at lower zoom levels. At 50% zoom I see about 2/3 of the painting at a time. Working like this has helped a lot with not getting caught in minutia.

Also I've switched to brushes with less blending and a harder edge. I've mainly been using two brushes: Flat Oil Brush and juls oil from juls oil brushes. These are both free so I definitely recommend trying them out if you're a fellow Clip Studio Paint user.

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For once I actually made a finished painting from a drawing in my sketchbook

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Cardinal Richelieu from the Three Muskehounds cartoon in my own style

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Thinking about stuff...

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Tried coloring a b&w painting with gradient maps. It's faster I guess but I still prefer painting with color on a few layers.

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Another one hour portrait

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Inspired by some photos of an abbey in Finland I stumbled upon, and Redwall of course

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Summer beach vibes yeah

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Another one hour portrait thingy

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Originally just a quick doodle but I like the color palette so cleand this up a bit

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I'm trying to challenge myself and see what I can paint in one hour. Painted this mongoose fella in about 50 minutes. Hopefully doing more of these will help me become faster painter.