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For the prompt Zuko back when he was young, angry and had the ponytail. Showing off - juggling fireballs.

This turned out way better than I was expecting. Bits of it are very slapdash but I've spent like a gazillion hours on it so at least for now am done.

Inspired, would you believe, by the amazing thanfiction drama: people kept posting his terrible photoshopped "paintings" and I thought "Wow, I could do better than that" (while I traced/copied a lot of it, the only bit of mine which is just a photo with a filter and a few strokes of "paint" is the flames. Flames are hard!)

So this isn't a very good picture, but I'm posting it anyway because
a) It took about an hour and a half from "Goddamit I have the paints out and I feel like painting, I'll make something crap that doesn't need white" to "I can't be bothered painting any more".
b) I didn't use any white! (The little you can see is the original canvas)
c) It shows off the shiny camera distantcam got me. Still haven't gotten the hang of the settings yet which is why it's so grainy but I'm sure I will pretty quickly.

Swirly tree

Christmas has overall been really nice, even if I have a headache. Night all, hope you had a lovely day!

I got all inspired to paint last weekend, but I kept being put off by the fact that I paint so rarely that I keep making rookie mistakes (man do I love the "undo" in digital art), so decided to do something so self indulgent and fun that I'd enjoy painting it even if it went horribly wrong.

Thus, a combination of pretty much everything I like to draw when I'm feeling self indulgent: floating islands in the sky, clouds, trees, books, dragons/stuff with wings, windows/mirrors, and a blatant self insert character:


Inspired very much by the zepellin-heavy Dr Who episode "The Rise of the Cybermen" I saw just before it. (The painting is set inside a passenger carrier attached to a dragon)

It really was fun, and went better than my last painting (about 6 years ago, not counting clay scultpures) But by GOD did I miss the ability to undo. And layers! Guh! I spent pretty much the whole time wanting to repaint the sky but being unable too cos there was other stuff painted over it. And then the cat jumped on the painting while it was still wet! *has just finished cleaning up the little pawprints off the wooden floorboards*