In other news, I finally understand why people flip their paintings upside down or reverse them horizontally - it's like a magic mistake-finding trick!
Rotating a painting is something my professors suggested when the class was working on oil paintings. I did it a few times but eventually stopped because I wasn't seeing the benefit. But, after watching a few videos on digital painting technique, I noticed that nearly all of the artists flip their work - usually several times during the process - so I decided I must be missing something and gave it another try... They were right, it works wonders!
Today I worked on this painting entirely flipped this way:
Here's the current version in the correct orientation:
And, here's last week's for comparison:
The differences are probably pretty subtle, but hopefully there is some noticeable improvement. There are still a few more adjustments I want to make, just to tighten everything up, but should be done soon!
