I haven’t thrown in the towel…yet. However, the more I look at the original artwork and compare it to mine, the more I want to say F it.
As you can see below, the sky in the original artwork (top) looks so much better than the sky in the paint-by-number (bottom):
Oh geez, look at this next one. The original artwork is on top with the pretty colors; my paint-by-number is on the bottom with the poop brown. It’s bad enough that it’s an ugly brown, but the coverage is horrible too. And, yes, I stayed in the lines pretty well:
And the thing I don’t understand about using the poop brown here is the fact that the kit comes with colors close enough to those in the original.
Then there’s the paint. The paint is hard to work with because it’s… Thick? Clumpy? I don’t know. It doesn’t spread nicely. I wasn’t expecting top quality, but it could be a bit more spreadable. I have no medium here to thin it out any, and I’m not investing in any either. I’ve made it work so far.
I will say the paint looks better in real life. The way the light is hitting the canvas seems to dull the colors. That poop brown though , it looks hideous no matter how you slice it.
Despite all of my issues with this kit, I’m still at it:
