October 15: mysterious

[asakiyume]

(I'm skipping October 14: teeming)

Comments

[sovay]

October 15: mysterious

I really like this one.

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I think I've seen this in dreams.

[queenoftheskies]

How awesome. I really like the splash of color standing out from the black and white.

[asakiyume]

I'm glad! Thank you.

[light_of_summer]

I like how you drew this a lot!

I was also briefly confused about how this represented mysteriousness, because I grew up in redwood country as a forester's daughter, and learned about "goosepen" trees created by fire quite early in my life.

So, I had to mentally step back, and say to myself, "What if that's not the tree being on fire? What else might be causing that glow?" Then it looked mysterious! 😊

[asakiyume]

After I finished coloring I realized, hmmm, now it looks like the tree's on fire, when really what I wanted was a mysterious glow. My problem is that I never take enough time with things. If I really took time, then I'd make the trees look three-dimensional and dark, and you'd have a sense of deepening darkness as things went further back in the picture, and then also I would have chosen better-colored pens to show a light emanating from within the tree. Because yeah, especially right now, with California burning, there's nothing particularly mysterious about a tree on fire! Instead of taking the time, though,I just did whatever I could do in like ten minutes :-P

I didn't know about the goosepen effect--thank you for that link! The photo is amazing, and exactly what this looks like, LOL. Thanks for playing the believing game with the picture and seeing how it *could* be mysterious!

[light_of_summer]

You're very welcome re the info link and the playing! (And I can relate re wanting to make things quickly. FWIW, it doesn't look rushed to me!)

[asakiyume]

:-)

[amaebi]

I like that.

[asakiyume]

very glad!

[e_d_young]

I see honey. Delicious honey that Winne-the-Pooh would feast on!

[asakiyume]

Mmmm, that would be delicious!