for love of drawing

Not exactly sure where I'm going with this. I'm thinking night sky. More trees. She's being pulled up by some stars on strings held in her hand. You can't see it but on her right hand (our left) is a cat she's kind of pulling up with her. I like how the trees turned out, but I'm not sure about her coloring - her dress and stuff. Seems pale in comparison to the trees, but i guess we'll see how that comes together once the sky background is set too. Actually, I really wish, I'd put the trees at an angle to make it more dynamic, but I'm still challenging myself by not laying out a pencil sketch first and going straight to color.



Now my biggest concern is where to put the moon lol. Which is bad because I'd already started the lighting and shadows. We'll see I guess. I better finish before this Friday for sure lol. The paper, by the way, is way bigger than my scanner could scan, and I didn't feel like stitching multiple scans in GIMP because it keeps crashing on me. I can't wait to put together my desktop onc eI get a new desk. Everything's still boxed up from the move.


Just added the sky. Left spots for the stars and the moon. The sky is pretty hard to color. You can tell where I had a fine point, then the points of my color pencils started to get stubby, so the bottom part is not as nice (imo) as the parts near the moon.


Blended and added colors to the sky. Now a little darker than before, however, that maybe due to my color levels in GIMP as well. My scanner + GIMP + laptop = sad panda face. Tonight I'll work on the stars, the ribbon tying them to her wrist and tuning the sky some more. Then I will take the final picture tomorrow (note: using my canon xti rather than my canon LiDE scanner).
This is it for now. It's still not done: I need to put more twinkling stars in the background, tiny ones. Had to round the edges because I used my scanner and the top two corners were vignetting because the paper is bigger than the scanner surface. Tomorrow I finish and take a picture! Yeay.