Forest Elementalist

This image started out as a way for me to get more practice on painting faces, and I'm pretty happy with how hers turned out.

I decided to have a shot at painting a background, and I think it looks alright - not great, but I'm still learning in that area. I tend to get so relieved when I finish the character, that I have no patience for the background and go for something simple and dodgy, but I'm going to try and stop doing that now - after all, the only way to improve is to practice.

...has anyone noticed my love of hotpants? I can't stop drawing girls in them. XD

P.s. I hate hands.... >__<

Total time: A fair while - I can never tell how long something takes me anymore, since I tend to read fanfics while I work on the image.

Sketched by hand, scanned and painted on the pc with a wacom graphics tablet. It was done equally in Procreate Painter 7, and Adobe Photoshop 7.

Art and character design is copywrite to me (Jigokuko), unauthorised re-use without my expressed written consent is prohibited.