(you may have seen these before on my sketch blog)

a few years ago, I did the first set of little environment thumbnails (first pic). they're all supposed to be loosely set in Ynysoedd y Ddraig/The Dragon Isles. I picked the three I liked best (red dot)

then last year, I began expanding each of those into eight variations. this stone window was first, going for a kind of artificial/natural duality theme (second pic). of these, I plan to pick three (or maybe five, if I'm indecisive) to turn into "full" value sketches. I'm well into the first of those (number 1 on the page) now, so I guess I can post this step without feeling like I'm always promising stuff that never comes. some of these have partial photo ref, but some don't, which is always jolly when it comes to detail time!