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Another ATC! This one took forever, but I'm kind of happy with the result. It was inspired by finding a shimmery dark green in my advent calendar, and, well... What to do with that? Old glass was my first thought. Also, two different light sources (one cold, one warm), just to make my life difficult...

Alchemische-Flaschen-kl

In the end, I actually managed to use all the four different types of shimmer and glitter from my advent calendar in the picture! (Shimmery transparent white on the window and the glass parts of the thermometer-weather-thingy, shimmery green on the bottles and the leaves (because why wouldn't those shimmer? XD), golden gel pen (on the jewelry, thermometer-thingy and fire-thingy), and silver gel pen on the rock samples - I guess those are ore minerals, then...) It feels kind of decadent to have a designated old-glass-watercolor, but hey, I love drawing old technology and lab equipment (and old glass often does have this color - not because people dyed it but because they had no way of removing the iron impurities), so I absolutely needed that one, I just didn't know it yet!

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Still a day behind, but whatever... ^^ I actually had a lot of fun with this - I drew it this morning just before our group meeting at work, so I had to be very fast. The character is from one of my stories, she's called Mirainn (pronounced Mee-run) and she's actually an alchemist, so it was kind of obvious I'd draw her for this prompt.

I noticed something interesting: when I mix the white and the black ink, I get a cold (!) grey - I didn't expect that because it's a warm white and a warm black, but obviously, particle shapes and their interactions with light ware a complex topic. Anyway, I tried to use this to portray cold, almost blue-ish light on a warm background...

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