Yang Shou scenery

I'm trying to stretch my painting muscles on scenery, which isn't my usual subject matter.  This is also an exercise to try and get into the frame of mind to further along Project Apricot.  I definitely don't have very good technique for landscape painting and as a result not much patience for it either, but I suppose it's a start.

This is forcing me to get more familiar with other brush options and work in a way very different to what I'm used to.

omg! look what I found!

I was looking for some photos on my flash drive and found these old sketches from an on-going project (which has stalled).  These are two character sketches I did at least almost 5 years ago.

It bums me out a bit because I have versions of these that are further along (and a sketch of another character), but they're on a hard drive that's busted.  Also bums me out that I'm pretty out of practice and am not at the level I was when I did these two sketches.

Anyway, I'd like you to meet some friends of mine:

Iris

Yan

I'm trying to figure out what to tag this as.  I've gone through a few working titles already: Purple Night Skies, Dreamwalkers.  I think I'll just give it a code name for now...  How about project Apricot?  I'll just make my way through this list of fruits.