This has been a lot of work, but it's getting much closer!

Now that the main structures are all done, I just need to do a bit of detail work and cleanup here and there, then I'll move on to adding Niv-Mizzet.

#WIP

Also I've been working on this for so long that I don't see anything except vague areas of color and value anymore.

Which is not good, because active understand of what one is looking at is very important for art.

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@ziphi wait though, isn't letting go of focus enough that instead of X illlustrative thing, it's Y and Z values, isn't that a good thing for working on painting?

@Leucrotta In some ways, yeah. But I think I'm past that point and I've stopped seeing much of anything critically while I'm working anymore.

I may need a break soon.

@ziphi @Leucrotta I could see it being especially difficult to see your piece critically when you've been staring at it for hours and hours. 😖

I've heard that looking at it in a mirror can help trick your brain into seeing it 'fresh' - not sure if that might help 🤷

@GoodNewsGreyShoes @Leucrotta Actually, a lot of art programs have a mirror function for exactly that purpose. It's just a single key press in Krita. And it's like being transported to an alternate dimension where everything is wrong.

@ziphi @Leucrotta I read this while eating breakfast and nearly choked on my cereal. 🤣

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