Edit: I forgot to mention the inspirations~ @_@; This one was mostly inspired by browsing through those INSANELY gorgeous War of Genesis arts...and, of course, by my permanent inspiration, Linda Bergkvist [link] .

Self-Improvement Attempt #1
Targets: Details, some vague resemblance of a background, skin tones

Lately I've been very unhappy with myself in terms of art, so I finally promised myself I would actually sit down and spend a good length of time to draw something halfway decent. The first in a group of forced self-improvement pics~ @_@;;; So hence--a random pixie pondering [insert enlightening concept here] while stuck in a bunch of oddly rendered ferns.

This took a total of about 11.5 hours....that extra .5 being when I accidentally colored one of the wings on the same layer as her skin. Oh my God, HELL on EARTH ensued until I finally deleted it (and had to fix up parts of the skin) and started it over. -____-; I'm still more or less upset with the background/ferns and whatnot, and--of COURSE--the lighting is off. It's ALWAYS off. @_@; Mental note to self to make that the next target...but this time, I will blame the two light sources on the fact that she GLOOOOOWS. >:] *mwaha* Done in Photoshop with 2 different brushes, the dodge and burn tools, and the smudge tool. The source .psd file is like the size of a half-hour movie file. O___o

Anyway, I'll probably make this into a DA Print once I sign up for that thing and figure it out~ In the meantime...I actually sort of like this one, so please be semi-gentle. ^^;; I bruise like a peach. ;__;