This picture has a loooong story! It's definitely one of my most personal paintings, I actually started it a few years ago, when I was going through a life change. In a nutshell and without going into the details too much, it was meant to be quite a happy and reflective image but a lot of things went wrong during that time, and I was SUPER stressed out to say the least and it put me off this picture that had originally had such a positive meaning. Suddenly what I associated this picture with was a lot more negative things and I didn't touch it for ages. I kept coming back to it, but something always felt off with it, not only because I chose quite a tricky perspective.

But recently I finally felt like I was ready to give it a bit of an overhaul, both technically and mentally, and went over it with everything I've learned in the past 2 years or so and even changed the colour scheme and fixed the anatomy to the best I could from what I already had. Didn't take long and still has some quirks but I'm FINALLY happy enough with this to share it! :) Feels like an achievement haha.

The original working title for this was 'Dust Clears', based on the song by Clean Bandit and while in a way I don't think it fits anymore in the same way it used to, I decided to keep it as I do still like the song and the lyrics do strike a chord to some degree, even if the meaning changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfL2nY-Xs8

Hope you like the final result! I'm glad I decided to change the colours, it was originally pink and purple but I think the biggest thing that helped me feel like I could finish it was to just change the whole tone of it (guess in both literal and not so literal way!)

I also put it up on my Society6 http://society6.com/lhuin

Thanks for looking!