A new skill that I learned with my tree and coloring it with oil pastel is that i need to color darker with the oil pastel. When i put the tempura on, it covered up most of the oil pastel. And so now i have to go back and recolor it darker. This will lead me to know in the future to color deeper with oil pastel. (The color you see is after i recolored it.)
I have to do a lot of research as in looking at pictures in order to find detail for my globe. Obviously the average person can just think up what land and water and the inside of the world looks like, so this is why research is involved. For instance, the way that north America is shaped is actually different than the way i thought it was. Im trying to give it a more realistic look.