Fixing a Failed Drawing: Snowy Hills Landscape

Due to a lack of proper materials and artist tools, I wasn’t able to create smooth gradients or achieve the right colors.

So I prepared a few tubes of acrylic paint, a piece of wood, and a kitchen sponge.

Then I mixed colors to get new shades such as light blue, purple, orange, and others. I also used pure colors like yellow and red.

I used a kitchen sponge to create a smooth gradient in the sky and applied paint to the snowy hills. One layer wasn’t enough to cover the marker strokes, so I added several more layers.

I used a more saturated blue to create a smooth gradient on the hills.

Next, I mixed a darker purple color using red and dark blue paint.

With that done, I used an artist sponge to paint a dark purple cloud.

After that, I mixed a light purple shade.

At this point, I added light purple highlights to the cloud.

I blurred and smoothed out these spots.

Next, I repeated the process — once again adding light blue highlights and blending them in.

In the following step, I created a muted purple tone.

Then I tried painting more clouds, but they didn’t look good.

So I decided to try a different tool — I used the brush you can see in the photo.

I then painted stretched clouds using yellow, white, and orange.

In the next step, I painted outlines with blue paint.

Finally, I refined the outlines, added highlights, and drew straight lines to emphasize the clouds and I improved trees. One of the problems I faced was the paper bending due to moisture.