Painting Plateau's and how to over come them

Everyone has plateau's this is for sure, but as someone that that spend 15yrs learning and teaching (tho it wasn't in painting but in another arts), there are ways help past that plateau easier/more fun but its honestly just time spent.

The 1st 500-1000hrs you will see great improvements and it will slow down, after you get a couple thousand hours into it you dont really see the progression, but you are still learning new techniques, you are understand the details better, able to do it faster/easier etc... and this is where you just need to continue for another few thousand hours to really see the difference, but once you do you will be amazing at it.

A really fun thing to do to help you get and "see" the better results is learning new techniques and styles, especially something you are interested in.

There are many ways/techniques for each type of job, always learn other ways and find what you like better.

Great example: FIRE, there are 3-4 popular ways to paint fire, take an hour or 2
1) watch videos on all these ways
2) take another hour and practice each one to find the one you like
3) Pick the one you like and practice it a few times
4) Paint a model and be impress!
5) Practice it and repeat with new techniques!

Here is my 1st attempt at fire doing these steps