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This is my first FINISHED work after a long time of not being able to finish one, either out of a lack of motivation, fear of botching it, a lack of time or wanting to draw something else instead.

The whole picture was a learning experience. Many textures and colouring techniques you see here were improvised on the spot. For example I managed to overcome my long time problem of making things look flat (like the water or clouds). There are parts of it that I'm not happy with like the back of the ocean and the impression the sunlight doesn't reach the blue part of it, the transition on the clouds, additional lines on the right boot and bust - or the texture of the right rocket. It took me 8 days to colour and about 2-3 days to sketch and then draw the lineart.

There were days where I made only small progress, because I didn't know what I could colour without spoiling the whole. The last day(s) were frustrating as hell. I almost started to hate it, because of the stupidly put black spots on well lit clouds. I had to convert them to birds.

Again, the pic looks better when the sunlight blends the transitions with the white parts and makes the white parts glow.

Coloured with thick Bambino colour pencils and thick, somewhat oily Koh-I-Noor Harmouth pencils. Lineart done with stabilo fineliner.

Description
This is my first FINISHED work after a long time of not being able to finish one, either out of a lack of motivation, fear of botching it, a lack of time or wanting to draw something else instead.

The whole picture was a learning experience. Many textures and colouring techniques you see here were improvised on the spot. For example I managed to overcome my long time problem of making things look flat (like the water or clouds). There are parts of it that I'm not happy with like the back of the ocean and the impression the sunlight doesn't reach the blue part of it, the transition on the clouds, additional lines on the right boot and bust - or the texture of the right rocket. It took me 8 days to colour and about 2-3 days to sketch and then draw the lineart.

There were days where I made only small progress, because I didn't know what I could colour without spoiling the whole. The last day(s) were frustrating as hell. I almost started to hate it, because of the stupidly put black spots on well lit clouds. I had to convert them to birds.

Again, the pic looks better when the sunlight blends the transitions with the white parts and makes the white parts glow.

Coloured with thick Bambino colour pencils and thick, somewhat oily Koh-I-Noor Harmouth pencils. Lineart done with stabilo fineliner.