Susquehanna Pinnacle (Patreon)

Recently I've seen people doing this "25 strokes painting challenge" where you try to do a pic with only 25 strokes of the brush. I've been wanting to give that a try for a while. This is a pic of the Pinnacle overlook of the Susquehanna River.

Ironically, I thought this would be a fast sketch (it rather looks like it is), but it turned out to be quite methodical. Since you only get 25 strokes, you spend a lot of time making sure the color is right and (in the case of digital), picking an appropriate brush to get a good texture or effect.

I'll probably end up doing a few more of these (including some from life rather than from a photo), and hopefully I can loosen up a bit and go faster and just see what happens.

It doesn't help that I find it really difficult to work on stuff after a long day at work... |> But I do want to try to keep going if only to maintain momentum.