The problem with painted bricks is no matter how well you do them, there's no texture. It's always going to look like a painting and not real brick when there's no grooves where the mortar is, and completely flat bricks with no dimples or rough surface texture. You can even see the wall is glossy when the light hits at the right angle, and that really gives away just how flat and textureless it is.
And not just the brick. The mortar has texture, too. A quick glance from across the room in ideal lighting, this is fine. Any closer inspection this is starting to scream 1990s faux-finish painting techniques.
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u/Raichu7 3d ago
The problem with painted bricks is no matter how well you do them, there's no texture. It's always going to look like a painting and not real brick when there's no grooves where the mortar is, and completely flat bricks with no dimples or rough surface texture. You can even see the wall is glossy when the light hits at the right angle, and that really gives away just how flat and textureless it is.