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K'n-yan

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The subterranean world from H. P. Lovecraft's The Mound. Full view strongly recommended.

This took me way longer than it should. It started as a practice speedpainting but it took me 4 days to complete. Well, since the point of this exercise is to practice every day rather than produce a painting on a daily basis I'm still ok with it.

I had to scrap some content (and hours of work) too. Originally there was supposed to be a temple in the right bottom corner but I couldn't get rid of sort of a cartoonish look of the damned thing and I also didn't manage to paint golden doors and roof even after looking at some reference pictures. Man, gold is hard :(
(Note to self: learn to paint: a. ancient evil temples, b. gold)

Finally I decided I'd place some ruins and pillars there and that worked quite well.

Anyway, I feel there's some improvement in my skills after these few weeks but there's still much more to learn.

P.S.: There's only some kind of ambient light down there, so I don't think there would be much apparent shadows. Just in case you point that out ;)
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It looks like a mystical and eerie place