a day and a night

of work for this. Or at least, I stayed up well into the night working on it.

Probably my most involved painting. I am rather proud of this; not only because I used color, but because it actually looks like me. There are a few things that are still a bit off, but I have had quite enough of staring at this for a while.

Photoshop. Freehand from a photo reference; 10 hours? Done while listening to Tommy Emmanuel's Lewis & Clark, then watching all three LotR extended versions because school was canceled for a snow day.

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