I’ve always felt like you can’t ruin your own painting…I guess during the development and creation process it can go from weaker to stronger (or vice-versa) but really it’s just a process of figuring out what works or doesn’t.
Kinda like skateboarding…if you didn’t fall pretty regularly, it wouldn’t be much fun and you wouldn’t make any progress. So you just learn to fall in a way that does as little damage as possible.
Something like that. The yellow background was the second to final version.