Here is the completed ACEO. Scout's commentary and the stages of this beautiful artwork follow. The last photo below is the next-to-last stage. This is a gift from Scout to our etsy friend, Six, of sixsisters.etsy.com. You will want to visit her shop. To see more of Scout's artwork, visit our etsy shop, joonbeam.
No. 1 is the inked stage. I don't have a picture of the sketch because I didn't think to take pictures until this morning.
No. 2 is when I added the highlights. The ones on the wings were later darkened because they didn't show up on the dark green color I chose.
Now I colored and shaded the skin. I'm very happy with this stage because I love shading skin...
Now, after much color contemplation, I added in the wings and hair. You can see how much darker those highlights on the wings got.
Everything sort of started bursting with color when I finished the shirt and colored the braid. At first mom thought this was the finished stage.
After I added the background with a mixture of black and brown markers and pencils, I realized Skylar, the Character, stuck out too much, so I really darkened up the shading on the hair, wings, and clothes. This ended up helping the image because it heightened the effect of a glow coming from the middle of the picture.
And I finally added the "energy ball" with paint! After this, I waited for it to dry and added the finishing touch of a little bit of blue shading inside the white. I'm really quite pleased with the way it came out, and I hope you like it, Six!
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