That time a teenager critiqued my digital painting and was right
I was at a local art meetup in Portland last year, showing off a fantasy landscape I'd spent about 20 hours on. A kid, maybe 16 years old, looked at it for a minute and said "the reflections on the water don't match the sky colors." I almost brushed him off since he was just a kid with a tablet, but I looked closer and he was absolutely correct. The sky was all warm sunset oranges but the water had these cool blue reflections I'd copied from a reference without thinking. I had to admit my colors were off and thanked him. He then pulled up his own work on his phone and showed me how he matches reflection hues layer by layer. It really made me rethink how I handle lighting in my pieces. Has anyone else had a younger artist teach them something unexpected?