dungeon23 week 21 - colour wow!

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This, from what I remember, was the first time I:
1. Used the Elegant Fantasy Dungeon Generator for prompts;
2. Coloured the dungeon in properly. I used a very old set of 36 coloured pencils from WHSmiths that had been sitting on my shelf unused for years.

coloured pencils are great

• They don't dry out, so you can pull a set off a shelf that hasn't been used for years and they still work. They can also be used for ages, you're unlikely to need to buy more unless you lose or break them.
• You can colour on all sorts of paper with no danger of bleeding through (admittedly the paper I use for Dungeon23 is good quality and rarely has that issue but still).
• They can be used from everything from light shading and subtle highlighting to blocks of colour. You won't get a bright heavy colour certainly but that's not what I'm after here.
• They are cheap. Even high-end ones aren't that expensive. I think in the stationery market they are treated as basically for children. I bought this set for £3.99 and that was £2 off.

downsides to coloured pencils

• you can step on the box and some of the pencils will break, which is a bit irritating
  • yes I did that
  • but it was only a couple of them and it really just means you have two short pencils of the same colour now

yes, but the dungeon

The dungeon itself is a magic school inside a petrified arboretum, where a magic-using culture would train people to levitate and also conduct parties (to which one had to levitate) only a curse was unleashed that petrified everything. Writing this post I'm reminded that there are at least two other instances of petrification in other weeks of my Dungeon23. I'm not sure what deeper meaning this has. I should ask my therapist.

Anyway I think the rooms are reasonable if not amazing for this week, and this is the first time I coloured a map in. I was still writing in pencil though which is kind of hard to read in the scan, I'm sorry.