Looking great! Drawing containers can be very hard to get all the subtle curves, ellipses, etc... And you accomplished it really well. the only think that looked kinda off were the peaches. Their softness isn't matching the loose brushwork over the rest of the painting. Other than that, fantastic! Keep it up!

Hi persona937. I think its well polished work. If your goal was to make well polished picture i think u achived it. When i draw i try to focus more on repition, focus on volume of drawings. It better to do like 30 drawings in a month then do 1 well polished. But again if you wanted to make well polished pic you did it. I was drawing still life recently also you can check them i made a post in this section. They are not that poished but they took like 1-3 hours. Idk if it's helpfull i am also learning like you)

Great studies! How long did each take you? Economy of brush work is so difficult. It takes a ton of focus and knowledge of form. The artists that I've studied for this has been Joaquín Sorolla and John Singer Sargent. But if you want earlier I would go with Franz Hals as well. The essential improvement I can see with your work is getting a deeper understanding of form. What I mean by this is knowing in your head exactly how the body of the horse flows through space so well that you could rotate the horse in any angle and draw it. Of course you don't have to be that good... Like Kim Jung Gi.... but a better understanding will help you render the light on the forms. I point this out because most of the forms in these painting appear flat. They don't have the full illusion of depth they could have. If you want to improve your perception of form I would suggest Drawabox.com lessons. Marco Bucci has a wonderful course called Understanding and Painting the Head that is great as well. And of course Proko manichenization. (which I never spell right) Hope that helps! Keep up all the hard work!!! Very inspiring, I need to paint more!

I think that they look quite painterly. You honestly could have fooled me into thinking these were traditional. The only flaw I can really see is that in the third painting, the sides of the roofs form a tangent, which makes the picture's depth less distinct.

These are very nice! I recognize those paintings as well. Did you use the zorn palette as well?

They look very painterly! I also like how you did the loose skin on the middle guys face, shows the form well but doesn’t draw attention away from the eyes and nose

Hi juan . I think as an illustration it looks preaty good. I agree with previous guys about composition and separation but its minor things overall the picture looks solid.

One more subission for the challenge. Was a beautiful day yesterday in moscow couldn't resist but to draw the view.

I see below that you mostly use Photoshop. If you haven't tried the mixer brush yet, I highly recommend it. If you tweak the settings, you can get it so it doesn't put any color down, but just mixes the colors below and adds texture. You can do it on a separate layer, which lets you play around without fear of messing things up. When I use an approach like this, it lets me worry less about the brushes I'm using up front, and lets me really experiment and have fun.

On Krita, I always use Rough Bristles(Wet) and round wet paint(both default brushes)—I like the way rough bristles act like thick oil paint and when you pull the paint away to spread it gives very nice textures when it comes to small forms or highlights. Round wet paint is good for shaping up, though there are other detail brushes that can do it better, But I find it more preferable to get good at two or three brushes than try to use all of them. It can get quite messy. For Clip studio, the default pencils and oil/water color brushes are amazing. Especially pencils when I don't have(like right now) any money to buy the sketchbook for the month. they do the same work with near similar feel. The online downloadable brushes are amazing too, and I use a lot of the watercolor ones for sketching and painting the base colors to get a feel for the overall shape. When it comes to finishing touches, I feel like square brushes are a better option. Round ones for highlights; for anything else like small curves, squeezed forms, reflections, merging light or whatever comes to mind. It just has a better feel, though I can't really put on a finger why.

Here's my submissions for the challenge. Good luck to everyone.

You've done a great job! I like how you did all the green-yellow hues, a lot bolder than I can manage. Looks like that the aspect ratio of these two images are not quite the same? yours appears to be a bit stretched vertically? also notice the river bank and the path down below, the shape isn't quite there. To me I feel the feeling of "brighter light" is not as much in your study, maybe it's lack of the hue shift towards a bit yellow, especially in the water and the sky line where the atmosphere could scatter light and a lot of times it will shift a bit.

I've done many studies before. What exactly are you studying from the original? Even if it's multiple things it's best to define something. The purpose is not to copy or reproduce accurately but to try and get into the head of Levitan. Let me know and I'll help from there. Thanks for posting.

They look great to me tbh:D The only thing I could maybe say is that you could try to clean them up a little more around the face/focal point. Unless they are just quicker practice then great job!:)