Dragons, Glitter and a Take-Away Box

Well .... the flat I was working on yesterday (the Dragon Palace House) took me so much longer then I expected as I kept on finding ways to make it look better. For example with my timings I had totally forgot to compensate for a Trompe L'oiel effect shadow under the roof, I didn't realise how difficult it was going to be to draw the dragons' faces and I had to touch up a couple of my lines. Anyhoo, I got the flat done after lunch and all in all I was pretty pleased with my work, especially the purple roof.

Today, there hasn't been much work coming through from construction so in a sort of a backwards step I've been able to take my time on things. I worked on the Palace throne today in which I glued the glitter highlights on, in this task I learnt from my mistakes a) choose carefully where to add the glitter (in my first attempt the dragons looked like they were wearing wigs!) and b) that before you put the gold glitter on make sure you paint a gold outline before just incase the glitter falls off. I was pretty happy in the end with my 'glittering' but golly I did take too much time on it!

I got frustrated with myself today when doing the 'Chinese Take-away Box', I have no idea why I found it so difficult to draw the two oriental T's on front as they were rather simple! I'm guessing I was thinking so much about them that I got totally worked up and just couldn't function right, but thankfully they looked alright in the end.