In place of a campfire, I abstracted the idea as a fuzzy light. The snow became round bokeh. Instead of trees, which took far too long for a speedpaint, I settled for an inky, black mass dominating the piece. Crisp lines degenerated to blurriness, as that was the best I could settle for to project a sense of coziness. The piece, sure, is less detailed, but the composition works much better.

Reflection

I found it difficult capturing entire experience with its minutia without simply copying the themes in the original artwork. Even trying to capture a fragment of the experience seems off; I am sure that many artists have gone through the pain of wanting to draw something they can see clearly in mind but cannot project it onto a canvas. I similarly feel the pain of not being able to manifest the same experience, and so I feel as though I have failed to accomplish the expected task for this assignment.

If I had to replicate the experience on a digital canvas again, I definitely would pre-plan and manage my time beforehand. Instead of letting the piece stay my mind, it might be productive to sketch out the composition on paper first to check how it appears on a surface. In addition, I should notice how long certain details would take for a speedpaint; for example, I should not take 30 minutes to draw spindly trees with many branches unless I prepopulate Photoshop with brushes beforehand. These assignments are less so of what I can draw as much as determining what is best to draw within a limited time frame.