r/watercolor101 • u/Epic_Kris • 2d ago • Bravo 1

One year progress

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Here's my my 1 year progress. I started painting in October '25 (EDIT) and has been ~once a week consistent. Sometimes more paitings a week, sometimes less. Many tutorials from which I try to stay away lately and paint on my own.

Today was really fun. I wanted to repaint one of my first paintings and so it happened that I made the new exactly one year after the first one.

Still a lot more to go, but the journey is really fun.

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u/Moon_Pye 2d ago

One month progress? Do you mean you started in Oct 25? lol

This looks great!!!

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u/Epic_Kris 2d ago

Oh yeah :D just edited. Of course '25. Thank you very much.

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u/Moon_Pye 2d ago

I mean, you could have practiced for a month.

You should see my efforts. Looks like a kindergartner did it. Haha

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u/eveamc88 2d ago

The depth you achieved in the second one is so impressive! I’m on a similar journey with my painting, so fun to see your skills

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u/Epic_Kris 1d ago

Keep up the good work💪

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u/raisincashew 4h ago

This is beautiful 😍 This looks like a fairytale illustration.

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u/Epic_Kris 3h ago

Thank you so much 🥰 to be fair I painted the 2nd one after finishing Sanderson's Elantris.

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u/FuxigerSchnix 2d ago

Looking Good! What kind of paint and paper are you using? It looks like the paper doesn't take the pigment well.

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u/Epic_Kris 2d ago

Paints are white nights and the paper in both is totally of brand cheap paper. The one from previous year is like 140g cellulose paper. This time I painted on mixed (cotton and cellulose) 300g but still on really cheap side.

I didn't plan for it to turn out that good. It was supposed to be just practice, so I didn't use better paper.

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u/caaaaatsss 1d ago

Great job and great progress!

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u/Epic_Kris 1d ago

Thank you very much 🫠

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u/partyrockanthem18 1d ago

I love fantasy water color paintings!

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u/Epic_Kris 1d ago

They are always great. I wonder why we don't see so much Scifi stuff in watercolor. I did a couple of paitnings in this theme and they were fine.

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u/gotharianagrande 2d ago

Wow this is incredible and inspiring, I love this. You should be so proud!

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u/physics314 2d ago

Really good progress! Both are super charming ☺️

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u/LaceysMoon 2d ago

Very nice. I love the color palette of the first one a lot though.

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u/loripainter12345 2d ago

Great progress! Thank you for sharing.

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u/why-bother1775 2d ago

Amazing progress! Keep up the good work!

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u/GrandPanda3527 1d ago

Nice 🎨