The art classes I'm taking now are the first elective art classes I've ever taken in my entire school career (besides music stuff). After mandatory stuff in middle school, there just wasn't any room in my school schedule for art anymore, at least not if I wanted my parents to think I was doing something real.  But I'm starting to regret never even trying those classes out, even though I wanted to. I think part of me was afraid I wasn't skilled and creative enough. I still have those thoughts but at the point I'm at right now. I don't even care anymore, I want to do it because it makes me happy.

I feel like every art class has to do a still life at some point. I remember being super bored of it when they used to tell us to try and draw those things sitting on the table for the entire class. But my professor might have sense that or something because she came over and told me I could turn my figures into a landscape, because she knew from my other projects as well as my current major that landscapes are part of my passions.

This is pretty much just after she told me to do whatever.

That's supposed to be a waterfall off to the side... idk if it comes across though. I still plan to add more layers to fill it up a bit more.

It ended up turning into a sort of mystical fantasy land in my mind. Like an oriental Atlantis, or like Kun-Lun where Iron Fist in the Marvel comics goes to learn how to use his powers.
...Nerd... but seriously.