Flower of Earth (2015)

^{Entry for Rising-Artists' Prompt Challenge #28 - The Elements!
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And also serving as a contest entry for ArtRage's May ArtRage Contest: Open Theme
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Combining The Eye of Mother Nature (2014) with The Tree of Life (2014) and throwing in Mother's Day into the mix as well. (Thought of painting a pretty flower for my mother but been too lazy.) This is the extent of my originality/creativity at this moment for the theme. (Failed to incorporate the periodic table...)

I'm well aware that the layers of the earth are not to scale and that the flower anatomy could use work. Mainly wanted to get the idea down, not spend endless hours carefully painting each stroke. (Even though I probably should...being a contest entry... Eh heh heh... *sweatdrop* ) Maybe I'll redo this from scratch sometime in the distant(?!) future. There's this epic visualization in my head...I'm just too lazy/impatient/unmotivated right now.

Unsure about my rendering without reference, so here are the elements:
Fire / Sun - Female part of flower | Earth's core
Water - Under the fire part in flower
Ice - Flower petals
Lightning / Thunder / Electricity - Male part of flower (Forgot to add the clouds)
Wind / Air - Not used this time (Forgot about it till now)
Ground / Rock - Under the fire part in flower | Earth's layers
Wood / Grass / Plant - Flower stem (Very creative... -_-; )
Lunar / Moon / Light / Holy - Not used this time (Moonlight suppose to shine down on the flower)
Shadow/Dark - Not used this time (Forgot about it till now)
Poison/Acid - Not used this time (No ideas came to mind for this)
Lv 99 Meteor Non-elemental - 9999 dmg! Outer space!

Off-topic: Does part of the earth's layers make you think of chocolate chip cookies too?

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On Tumblr: meekochan-art.tumblr.com/post/…

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Date: May 2015
Painted in ArtRage 2.6 using Wacom Intuos3 tablet.
References used: Googled earth layers and flower anatomy cause I long forgot grade school science
Time taken: 2.25 hours

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