"How long are you going to stay there...?"
"Uhmm... Which is the way?"
"Enough acting and excuses, you just want to enjoy the scenery here."
":/"
"You surely don't mind standing in the sun anymore huh?"
"This natural sunscreen camo is great, not scorching at all."
"Under 55 degrees."
"Feels like warm morning sunshine :D"
"Let's get moving, I'm scorched already..."
"Oh look! A 22 degree halo! Like those in pictures!"
"..."

2nd landscape / scenery piece of the new series. This was quite a challenge, using unfamiliar colour templates along with a fresh environmental theme. The greatest practice I had on this piece was the atmospheric concept, using eraser techniques to carve out contrasts in a sky background coloured as uniform as the colour pencils allowed. The sun halo was traced out using a compass, just being resourceful with available tools XD

The hardest part wasn't actually the sky. It was filling in the colours and detail for the character and vegetation. My character's colour template comprised of at least 8 shading layers, using a mix of earthy and brighter autumn colours. The cacti were surprisingly tedious, because it was something I never practiced before. The mesa was fun, because I just figured out random patterns and colour combinations.

Some details are almost invisible within this piece, due to the limits of photo taking. The sun halo actually had a faint rainbow spectrum within, but it failed to register properly here. There were a million places for improvement, but everything needs to have an "enough" XD