Standing on nothing

Another speedpainting I did back in July. 

Oh deer, you don't seem to be standing on very solid ground!

Limitations:
- no color picking
- only use one hard brush
- no lineart, sketching and such; apply color directly

• Messy erasing on the edges looks interesting
• The background is very rough and painterly but does look like forest. A bit
• I managed to keep myself from touching up the background
• I actually didn't use the picker at all this time around!
• I can see I'd do much better now - this was from last July

• I couldn't keep myself from touching up the damn deer
• Speaking of which, it looks stiff and the neck is especially off
• The deer looks really bad exactly where I went back with a smaller brush to "fix it"...
• ...and it doesn't seem to be stading on the ground. The problem was that bunch of branches/stray that cover its feet: in the picture it's actually a lot closer to the viewer and out of focus, so the deer's shadow wasn't visible and I couldn't really deliver a sense of distance
•  The colors aren't fresh and bright as they're supposed to

Experience gained: X points!

- Work work work on freshness and brightness of colors, perhaps even pushing values and saturation a bit

- Do NOT zoom in and go small brush on speedpainting like these - I need to work with large solid blotches of color and get better at being expressive with few strokes 

- Do NOT go for details if the base stucture is wrong