@rotub As long as it gets gotten gradually I'm gleeful

It's almost completely finished at this point. I just need to spend a few hours her and there kinda fiddling if you get what I mean.

Yet more paint. I really liked the idea of having an object to better show scale, but I wasn't completely sold on the feather (not a bad idea at all, though) so I figured a lone tree and local forest denizen might work.

Slowly fixing, pushing and pulling from here on out.

I may remove the chipmunk...

@johanna-kim Thanks Clouds are one of my favourite things to render. So floofy...

@nizhoniwolf said in BIG WIP:

Also, i don't know if its just me, but the Mountains look too smooth to be mountains(?)

True, but they look cool

Thanks very much for the feedback

@kathrynadebayo Thanks so much! I get a little better every challenge. I think you're right about that second feather. Movin' its shadow's an easy thing to do, thankfully

@chip-valecek Thanks, Chip I might try the little feather in the person's hand, but I'm gonna try and push the giant feathers back with some atmospheric perspective first.

@inkandspatter Oh, lots more details to add There's lots of lines to lose and find, textures to bring out, and lots of kind of pushing and pulling.

@heather-boyd It does look pretty cool There's a local person who does paintings using these kinds of simple super saturated colours on landscapes and they look awesome and other worldly.

@aleksey Thank you! Great suggestions I think I like the feathers in the air, though. We'll see! I may later on paint them out and put them on the ground somewhere.

From rough values comes a kind of heat map/light map. I dunno if this step is necessary, but I find it sort of helps.

And then from there rough local colour and a bit of fiddling.

And from here on out the linework gets flattened I get to paint my heart out