Hey,

Quick one, if you've ever looked at a painting that just felt right but couldn't figure out why, it's almost always edges.

Edges control where the eye goes, what feels soft vs sharp, what reads as light vs atmosphere. Most people focus on color and value (which matter), but edges are the thing that separates work that looks studied from work that looks felt and naturalistic.

I made a full painting course that covers this along with shape design, value structure, color and light, and form, basically everything I think about when I paint, laid out in 10 hours.

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If any of that resonates, take a look.

— Yuming