I still get messages from people saying my painting course completely changed the way they think about painting.

honestly, most artists already know enough technical information. the brushes are fine. the references are fine. the software is fine.

the real problem is usually something else, too much noise.

too many conflicting ideas pulled from too many random tutorials.

too much focus on rendering and detail before the painting itself is actually working underneath.

that's the thing the course tries to fix.

it strips painting back to the parts that actually carry the image. value grouping, shape relationships, color logic, edge control, simplifying things into clear readable structures before anything else.

those are the things that affect almost every part of a painting. they're the reason some pieces feels right and some feel like they're falling apart no matter how much detail you keep adding.

and they've been my the foundation of how I approach my own works since the day I understood them.

if you've been painting for a while and feel like you know the techniques but your work still isn't feeling the way you want it to, it's probably not a technique problem. it's a structure and priority problem. I address the things that are most important for a painting to hold together.

still the clearest explanation of my process I've ever put together.

https://yuming-li.mykajabi.com/

-yuming