Peacock butterflies

Hi all,
The digital painting is still going well although I do have a concern. I love painting digitally but I have a feeling it is affecting my eyes. To try and reduce the problem I'm doing two things. Firstly, when I do a new painting I get rid of the white background straight away. I choose a bland colour and leave that in place until I change it for the proper background when I paint it. Here is a painting  of some peacock butterflies on an aster type plant.

I made short video of how I painted this image and it shows how I used a bland background at the start. Here is the video.

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The second thing I'm doing to save my eyes is to do a bit more tradditional artwork. I don't think I'll be going back to watercolours but I'm going to give pen and ink and graphite another go.

I did a quick ink drawing of a partridge to see how it felt after amost a year of digital art and the experience was positive. Here is the drawing, nothing special but it didn't hurt my eyes at all.

If you have any comments please fire away and I'll be back soon with another butterfly painting.