The Archeress

At last, I have more art to show. This one I'm quite proud of, it's a female archer (or archeress, though I'm not sure if that's a real word >w<). I drew her standing at first, but then chose to place her in a more dynamic pose that expresses more energy and the tension of being in the middle of a fight.

I also spent a lot of time tweaking her color scheme.

This illustration is inspired by the online trading card game Ederon, which I once often played and recently decided to return to. One of my decks is a solo Hunter, and this is the picture that comes to my head whenever I play this bow-based deck.
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Here are some WIP versions of the illustration:

Rough pencil sketch

Digitized drawing (vectors)

Penciled shading (which I like to call a "shading map." I create the vector version by looking at this).

Thanks and let me know your thoughts!