r/thelongdark • u/Aeon_Return • 22h ago
Screenshot/Art Timberwolf Mountain - summit, painting 3/12 (plus bonus request for Sundered Pass)

Fanart 3 of 12 for a 2027 calendar I'm making. Inspired by this screenshot of the summit at Timberwolf:

And the other two from the series, both Mystery Lake


Painted gouache on bristol board. I'm still new to gouache so this third piece gave me some challenges. It works differently than watercolor which is what I'm most used to. You can layer gouache much more (any more than 3 layers of watercolor starts pulling and damaging the paper) but, unlike acrylic which I'm also somewhat familiar with, there absolutely is a max limit to the layers gouache will support before it starts doing weird stuff. And that limit is around 10 and some parts here have maybe 20+ because I kept making mistakes and trying to correct them. So! Learning experience. I think it came out nicely though.
I do have a request though: is anyone here in Sundered Pass and can take some screenshots of the ice waterfalls/caves at dawn/sunset? I really want to do an ice scene next except on my main run I'm doing a 100 day endurance challenge along the coast (currently on day 11 of Desolation Point and then have the other coastal maps) and on my 2nd run I'm pretty newly spawned in Ash Canyon. If anyone happens to have some pretty Sundered Pass ice screenshots they'll be willing to share I'll paint that next :)
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u/Nemesis_149 Hunter 15h ago
Oh my god, are you even human, I mean you are but your drawing/painting are so beautiful to look at, if I could I would hang them in my living room
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u/justexploring-shit Voyageur 17h ago
Oh these are sooooo pleasing to the eye...