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The Wyvern Peaks

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So, The Witcher is responsible for me going into the "oh fuck speedpaints so awesome must try myself" mode and is also partly responsible for the wyvern (the rest came from Hobbit movie where Smaug is a wyvern instead of a dragon). Considering the mountains: I didn't immediately go with this, originally the (wooden) statue was supposed to be on a cliff face that stretched across half of the image, with a house around it. Needless to say, neither the cliff nor the house turned out approximately good enough, so that's when I probably unconsciously remembered WoW and Murgole with the best city The Horde can offer (Thunder Bluff) as well as the Thousand Needles. 

Things that could be improved: Moon could get about its with toward the center (and clouds should adapt to that) and it could be a bit smaller. I could also try to season this picture by giving it a bit of texture I'd get from the custom brushes. It could also use a bit less blue.

Used GIMP 2.8 on Linux (I needed to restart GIMP only thrice (Xorg apparently started to crash some time in)), can say it was a good night), a tablet that malfunctioned near the middle (approach a specific spot, get a line drawn across whole screen and beyond). Brushes used: Things that ship with GIMP and self-made stuff. It was a night's worth of work (if we exclude various distractions during the course of night I spend 3-4 hours on this piece).

I think that was rather exhaustive comment.
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DTKinetic's avatar
Awesome, a landscape defined by plateaus 8-)

I like how you have cottages and pine trees dotted throughout the landscape, gives the scenery way more character. Compositionally, the position of the dragon is good, and I like the foggy mist cloaking the bottom of the picture :XD: