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The gallery owner in Austin zoomed to 400% on my piece and said my shadows looked like mud
So I switched from a soft round brush to a hard edged one for all my shading, and last week a stranger messaged me asking what brush pack I use, so now I'm curious what brush everyone else defaults to for crisp shadows?
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jackson.jenny15d ago
Switched to a cheap pack of oil paintbrushes from a craft store back in college because I liked the streak they left, and I still use the same beat up flat one for almost everything now. My old mentor watched me shade once and told me it looked like I was coloring with a crayon, which stung at the time but honestly he was right. Turns out crisp edges are less about the brush and more about not blending everything into a gray puddle until it dies. I keep one hard brush for the sharp cuts and one soft one I barely touch, and my shadows finally stopped looking like wet dirt. A stranger asked about my brushes too last month and I almost felt bad telling her it was a five dollar set. What got me was realizing the gallery guy only cared because he was zooming way past how anyone would ever look at it.
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