Lost In Winter Wonderland

This is my entry for the MTM WINTRY WONDERLAND 2011-2012 contest on Minitokyo and I'm so glad it's finally done. I wanted to give up two days ago because I've been busy with some things in real life and haven't touched this wall AT ALL but I pushed myself forward and now it's finally done.

I wanted to add the snowman somewhere in the picture but I don't really have much time for it so I guess/hope the scarf is enough. The background was made from scratch and I nearly died working on it. I've never really tried painting mountains (unless you count those retarded-looking hills I did a few times) so this was quite a challenge. I tried looking at some photos and images and they still don't really look much like snowy mountains I had in mind, but meh, I'll practice some more. The cottage and pine trees were fun to make, as well as the girl but that snow also nearly made me pull my hair out. In the end, I added some subtle textures/brushes, played with gradients and stuff and that was that.

I'm sorry I didn't have more time/motivation to polish this better - the lighting could've been refined some more and the shadows suck but this will have to do for now. ._.
The title is also very original, I know. >_>;

Brushes used here made by KeReN-R and Adonihs on dA.
Original scan: HERE ([link])

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