Landscape practice III: Rivendell (Patreon)

Okay, the most ambitious landscape yet. I'm leaving them rough around the edges on purpose, to force myself to think in shapes, not in lines and detail. I nearly abandoned this during the "ugly stage", which was long and very ugly indeed, but it's great to see that pushing through is actually worth it. If I do this a few hundred more times, maybe I'll start to see the ugly state as potential rather than ugly. I can only imagine that's how oil painters do it!