Faerie Escort

I swear, I measured various proportions on this while I was making the sketch. And I swear things seemed more or less correct (well, except for one mistake I made in adjusting...er, long story...). And I swear they don't even seem too far off now when I re-measure...

Still, the longer I look at this the more I feel like the proportions are grossly off (I especially feel that the woman is too big for the horse...in order to preserve my sanity I have decided that she's just riding a pony instead...). But whatever; it's practice; it's a lot of things I haven't tried before, and except for the grass, I like how a lot of the actual painting part of the process went. I especially like how the clothes turned out; I don't recall having painted clothes before (which must mean I paint very few people, and none which aren't naked, I guess).

I was so excited when I found the main reference here on dA (first link below) that I wanted to paint it right away...but I feel like I didn't do the reference justice. Which just means I'll have to re-do it sometime in the near future, and make it BETTER, MWAHAHA...

I used this: fav.me/d6o0997 and this: fav.me/d3l811c from

And I used this: fav.me/dglx02 from

Watercolor, 20" x 28" (splicing together four different scans to make a 20" x 28" @ 600dpi nearly gave my computer a stroke), 2013.