It's been a while since I worked on this, but I'd like to get it done, so I spent a bit of time on it last night!



I was originally trying to draw out basically every individual blade of grass, but ugh, that's not really a great idea. Grass doesn't need to be drawn in so much detail when it's not even what the piece is about. I shouldn't have spent so much time refining the rocks either since, again, the piece isn't about the rocks or the grass, it's about the general autumn mood and temperature and the characters' interactions.

So I grabbed a texturey brush I made and scribbled grassy colours all over the already grass-coloured areas, drew some individual grass blades here and there to make it look a bit more uh... grassy. I went over areas with the same textured brush to add fallen leaf colours and went over THAT that with some leaf-coloured blobs of paint. Yay.

I don't think I've worked on this since the day I last posted about it! But I got back to it tonight and started refining rocks.



So very many rocks, indeed. But actually, they've been sort of fun to work on. I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to the grass, though I'll have to remind myself to try not to make it just *grass*. It should be grass and leaves and twigs and all manner of foresty floor things. Y'know.

I've worked on the dragon and the girl a bit, though they've still got a long way to go. I'm finding it more entertaining to work on background elements at the moment. I made the decision to thin out the leaves of the trees since it's autumn and they'd be missing a lot of leaves anyway. Actually, I never uploaded a screenshot of the version where that was a problem, so you wouldn't know. The excessive amount of bright orangey yellow was bothering me and that seemed like a good way to solve that problem, so two birds with one stone, I suppose!

Edit:
Here's an update of work done over the last few hours.


I need to find a better way to draw foliage because I'm not entirely satisfied with what I've got currently...! We'll see what I can do though.

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Some more progress!



Working out tree details and making the landscape a little less uh... vague. I'm not really happy with what's going on with the land around that little stream, so I'll be changing that.

I've been working on that 'Get Your Own' image some more!



I adjusted the girl's pose and gave her some clothes. I'm not entirely sure I'll be keeping her current clothing colours, so that may change in the future. I changed the dragon's head position and expression. This time, I was going for a sort of 'eager dopey dog wants your food' type of look.

And, of course, I added base colours to give myself and others an idea of where I was going with the look of the environment.

Or, that will be the title for now. I might change it later, but who knows.

Anyway, after working on that Sleepy Forest thing for a while and receiving some helpful critique on it, I decided to rethink my approach to an autumnal scene. So now I'm challenging myself not only with a full nature scene, but also character interaction and drawing and painting a human being.



I'm probably going to adjust the dragon's facial expression and head position to make it look more like it was just trying to sneak a lick of whatever hot beverage your imagination desires to be in that mug. I'll have to examine that girl's proportions and pose a little more to make sure everything's okay and make any necessary adjustments, then I'll move onto colouring!