I love the finished product, but the canvas would have benefited greatly from just a little human touch-up and better use of the special drills. Things I didn't like and changed – or wished I could/would have changed:
• The mountain through the left windowpane is topped with gray-brown instead of the black that is everywhere else on the canvas. I made it black.
• The mountain in the right windowpane doesn't have any liner above it. I put a black liner over it. It's not very noticeable since the sky is dark blue, but I wanted it consistent.
• Two of the black vertical window separators are not straight - part of them skip over one drill and cause a “jog” in the window. I made the black windowpane separators straight from top to bottom.
• I took the one stray dark brown line out of her hair. Looking back, I wish I would have taken all the gray out of her hair – she’s too young for gray hair.
• There were at least ten other minor drill color changes I made throughout the canvas.
• When you look at the special drills, there are seven of them. Oh boy! However, they are almost all just in the small geodes that are on the left bookcase and on the left windowpane. I think that canvas needed a lot more special drills.
• I wish I would have made the moon out of either AB or Dust drills.
• My dark blue drills had a few tabs, but not too many. However, I thought the black drills were terrible. I would guess at least 5% had tabs on the side. Throwing away all drills with tabs ended up not being a problem because there were still lots of 310s left over… and they were thrown out.
As I stated, I'm loving the end result and will not hesitate to buy Munimade again in the future… but it would have been quite easy to make this render exceptional.
