Speedpainting '19 Dump

While I didn't manage nearly as many daily (or should it be often?) environment sketches as the previous year, I still made some. Here are a few of my favourites.
Working in bulk is beneficial in several ways; it makes one feel less unproductive when they are piling up, one can get short ideas out quickly, and on the improvement side, doing many of a kind both trains doing it well, and shows up weaknesses.
Later I repainted several of them in acrylics to get the hang of landscapes better, because it seems I do more landscapes digitally and more portraits traditionally. Almost all in different formats because I had precut papers I wanted to use up. If you're intereted, some are available in my Etsy shop.
 

"Why are they calling it Fish Falls if the fish don't fall? They jump." - "Jumping is upside-down falling. They just thought a three-word name would be too complicated to remember."

They said that ages ago there had been four-legged, furry animals that accompanied kids on their kite runs; but with the Earth having suffered Extinction Level Events thrice since those alleged creatures existed, it was impossible to tell if they had ever lived at all.

When Newcastle neared its one-thousandth anniversary, there were many jokes, but the name was of course correct in regard to every other structure in the realm being at least four times as old.

All the cubes had turned into only smaller cubes, so eventually the natives had stopped trying to smash them, but still made it a point to not accept the angular tyranny.

The tale of the Fire Knights known as the Steadfast was used as a cautionary one, against those who claim to follow their heart but do not achieve civilized results. The Knights' Council developed a practice of self-observance bordering on paranoia after their re-founding because of them.

To those in the caves living in the tumultous outside had always been inconceivable, while the outsiders never understood how they could live in the dangerous confines under the mountain. Yet, both had always lived in harmony, on any day other than the First Day of Spring.