;D !

That is a good sign :3 ~!

Hmm, now how about something dry and sandy?

Will be giving that a shot shortly ;3 !

Dang. If i ever make a game, i know who to go to for backgrounds. XD

Heheh, thank you very much :3 !!!

great atmosphere. so serene... shh, no loud noise. it will disturb the ghosts.

Agreed = w= Ghost tend to put a kibosh on exploration.

right? as if they all had a clown for breakfast...

Another lovely one! I love ruins, toooo! I think it's that sense of exploration and wonder with a hint of mystery.

Thank you :D! I think you definitely touched upon why we find ruins so interesting: A sense of exploration and seeking answers to questions posed by what you see and find.

When you paint these, do you use references during the process? Or is this mostly from your visual library, and/or muscle memory?
Lovely work by the way! I've really enjoyed going through your library.

For all of these I use a photograph to provide me with a basic colour palette and sometimes even base composition. Since a photograph tends to have a large array of colours, I like to distil and pick only what I feel are key colours and use only those + gradient blending. The finished image ends up looking different from my ref material since I embellish and add a lot of features, but having that photo ref from the beginning helps me a lot.

I can indeed make one of these from scratch since I have done enough to imprint on my memory, but I find my internalized palettes still tend to be limited. These images are essentially my way of broadening my internal reference material.