[x]

Browse More Like This

Shop Similar Prints
This Print Not Available more ▶

More from =genniieeee

View Gallery

Featured in Groups:

#EliteArtists
New Breed Of Artists

#digital-artists
Premier Digital Artwork

#Digital-Beauty
Beauty is a form of Genius

#Eclectic-Tastes
Everyone's Welcome!

#FantasyFans101
!Only Quality!

#Supernatural-art
dark, fantasy, surreal, scfi

#The-Underexposed

#Unique-Stars
Collection of the best artwork!

Show all (9)

Details

Submitted: March 26, 2011
Image Size: 385 KB
Resolution: 943×634

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 64
Favourites: 594 [who?]
Views: 8,560 (2 today)

[x]

Forest Guardianby =genniieeee

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / People / Fantasy

Deep in the woods dwell, the fairy queen...

This piece was inspired by Yoshitaka Amano's beautiful illustrations of different fairies which i purchased while i was at G-anime. The painting process put me under a lot of pressure. At some point I decided to just render the hell out of everything lol. So this piece is more like a study than a finished painting.

What I learned was to stop painting forests and jungles as a backup when I can't decide on what to do for a decent background.... forest-crutch is my new term for that lol. That being said, I actually did plan out the background forest while planning the character so it's not that bad this time around. I tried something new and rendered parts of the background before finishing the figure, which I think works somewhat better than finishing a figure and then concentrating on the the bg. This way the fairy stands out more but at the same time is fused with her surroundings.

______________________
time spent... far too long... lol like 6-8 hours? in the span of 2 months
Corel Painter Essentials
Photoshop CS4 and CS5