Digital Painting: "Do not eat from this tree"

I wasn't able to paint for a while because I had to rest my eyes—staring at a screen for hours while wearing contact lenses is a really bad idea, as I found out, lol. When I picked it up again I caught myself fearing that my hands would have forgotten what they had learned. As I kept going, it turned out to be rather the opposite. The painting process was a lot easier this time, although I hadn't practiced for a while. Maybe it's a good thing to take a break for a few days every now and then, to have some new "neural pathways" formed which enable one to get things done from a different perspective? However, above is the result, which I'm happy with, and I'm looking forward to painting more and more and more.

Painting has helped me a great deal in identifying my fears and thought patterns: there's just me and the "canvas", and what will happen on the canvas is a reflection of how I choose to think and act. I think I'll do a more detailed post on that—nonetheless, I want recommend a book that was very helpful on this path: Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland, which is also available on Scribd (if you have the subscription—if you don't know Scribd, it's basically Netflix for books).