Here I practiced the negative space technique in the background, and as I was also practicing eyes I made this lil piece out of it :) love the technique! the tip about not outlining the object first helped immensely even though it should've been common sense really! haha. More to come as I complete them...

Here I used masking fluid for the crystals:

aaaaand finally, after quite a while (cos i'm great at doing lessons) i tried out the cloud activity, and then also combined this with mandalas (cos i'm obssessed), i don't have a round brush so it produced mixed results but I do love how pastelly they went :)