This is the second main assignment for my digital painting class this semester. I see a lot of stuff I wish I did better on, but I'm trying not to beat myself up too much over it since this is probably the most complete and best painting I've done in my life so far. 

I owe so much to my professor Alice Carter this semester. She's a brilliant, but tough teacher. Like, she is tough but her advice sticks so well. I truly hope the improvements from this semester are continuously this fruitful in the end. :)

And sad thing - I like the dandelions better than anything else in the painting. Like, errghhh. Forty hours on that tree and one hour on a dandelion. This world is too much for me. Dx

Work in progress versions of the tree. The bottom two are some messy pencil and watercolor sketches of the tree.

  

Gonna start off my long hiatus with a small dump of stuff. xD The top is a sketch of a tree for class. The bottom is a painting of it, also for class. My reference was very, very unclear so I didn't know what to make of a lot of what I was looking at for the painting. I tried painting with the marque tool for this one. It looks flat, very flat - but I feel like it has an interesting look to it at least. xD 

I am totally ashamed of myself as to how severely this blog was during my Summer vacation. Orz 

But for reals, I had a long, relaxed Summer vacation and went studying abroad from September to the end of January. One of the greatest experiences of my life. It was expeeennssivee... but well worth it. +w+ If I had more money and wasn't worried about graduating sooner, I would have loved to stay in England for a full year. But alas, my resources are limited. :/

I'll hopefully talk about it more in some later posts since I did do a few sketches while I was in England and in Europe. (Sadly nothing too exciting xD )