I love digital painting, but I rarely take the time to actually do it. However, I really wanted to enter the freestyle graphics compo at The Gathering this year, so I decided to finish a picture I started a few months ago: Divine Carousel.

It was fantastic doing something creative and totally uncommercial for once, and I’m quite happy with the result as well:

(You can see the full-size version here. :)

The quality-level in the competition was absolutely stunning, and you should really check out the rest of the entries (especially Babe Runner, the winning entry – such amazing goddamn work by Anne-Marte Markussen).

If you’re interested you can find all the entries here, and the full results.