Cool. After seeing it in the initial stages, it's almost surprising that it's so dark. I imagined her as a platinium blonde. But this works just as well. I love the shine of her fringe and the way you've done the multicoloured frizz of the rest of her hair.

The framing of the picture is good, there's a kind of mystery about it that suggests a wider picture and a context, but all you get is a face, and elusive clues about the bigger picture from the twist of her torso and odd corners of her clothing.

It must be fun to take advantage of that kind of free range of colour, like the eyes and the lips and the skin. And you've rendered it all brilliantly.

Most awsome eyes ever!

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Heck Ja!!!

wow the eyes are great! I love the eyes. and the colors are great, too. the brightness is very succeed! good job!

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People don't fail, they give up.

thankies!!!!

and another grammer lesson
we would never say the brightness is very succeed, we would more likely say the brightness is successful

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-Kelly

thank you, thank you


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-Kelly

Thanks a yes that close-up was on purpose. In my poem I pictured all these little fairies getting in your face, taunting and teasing and enticing you, so this was that in your face shot. I am glad you got that!!
And I wanted it to be night so that explains the darkness, but blonde hair, I simply can't she that on her at all. How strange...
It is interesting where art takes us. I thought her hair was going to be completely different too. If you read the comments it said I thouht I was going to do it in watercolors, so the hair definitely went in a different direction then I thought it was going.

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lol ah okay thank you for the correction ^^.
but for me "the brightness is successful" sounds like a person named "brightness" is successful. doesn't it sound strange?

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People don't fail, they give up.

Yeah, I did get the idea of her flying in your face, especially with that mocking little 'shush' finger. Kind of like moths, going really really close to you and suddenly just darting away again. And giggling.

I only really thought she would be platinium blonde because when I first saw her, you hadn't coloured it in, and the idea stuck. I thought it'd be an interesting colour for showing that juxtaposition of millenias-old immortal being and spoilt, immature child that seemed to radiate from her.

So how was her hair going to be originally? Ethereal and elemental, maybe?

Well, with the watercolors I was going to do these big blobs of color, and I don't know if you know this be when you add salt or water drops to the watercolors when they are still damp you can get all these different effects

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those are some pretty good examples but she only used one color; I wanted to use a bunch. In the future, I want to do an entire fairy in watercolors from the start and then do the hair like I envisioned, but for this one I though that first, I didn't want to mess it up (because I have never really used those techniques before) and second, I wasn't sure how it would go with the pencil. I ended up feeling that I thought the pencil itself would turn up like I wanted it for the hair and I had already done some of the hair in pencil to begin with. I was worried about somehow mixing the pencil likes at the beginning of her hair and then having watercolors at the end. Plus I really didn't have the room to really do the big hair I wanted with the watercolors.

and there you have it!

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-Kelly