>>4255465Kinda agree, but there literally no artists today who paint realism purely from imagination. All these digital realism artworks are painted with references or copy entirely from the original. That's what i mean with "just paint what you see", never wanted to say that is easy.
Even simplifying it and get your painting still to look good is pretty hard, even harder IMO because you need to study the mood of the picture or the scene.
Btw, the picture you posted is also not entirely "realism", it has a loose style too.
We need to discuss this with a cup of tea.
