What part of these eyelids are pink, and what parts are yellow, and what shape should I make to mark that difference? You don't always need to define that difference, but occasionally forcing yourself to consider that helps put you in situations to push your paintings farther as a learning experience. But the point is that when you paint something with a round brush, it kinda forces you to be more deliberate about the shapes you're creating. That's not to say that either is bad, or that either is cheating. In fact, both are equally developed paintings, but the chalk brush one looks better, so it's easier to stop there and not push it further. With the chalk brush, the grittiness of the brush implies that 'There are lots of colors and detail here, but it's a deliberately noisy simplified image and it still looks good.' But with the round brush, since you can see all the brush strokes but you haven't drawn the green reflected light from the grass, or the detail of the pockets, the front of the overalls looks underdeveloped. Like, here, in both the chalk and round brush paintings, you've used 4 colors to do the overalls. The reason that the round brush is so good at helping you improve is that it can't kind of mush the colors and shapes into something that looks pleasing automatically without having to completely define the shapes. Post not showing up? The vile spambot has probably gobbled it up. Inspiration for artists struggling with sloppy/early work

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