It's been a week of constant practice, mostly full pencil drawings and messy sketches. But I decided to break away from that to make a complete painting I've had in mind for days now. Leaves, gems, flowers, green is such a beautiful colour and its difficult not to love it.
I started with a simple clean sketch and chosing different shades of green to work with for leaves, clothing and every other aspect of the painting. I laid the flat colours, painted facial features and added little darker shadows on her hair.
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The second stage of the work was basically rendering everything I painted and bringing the whole work to life. Adding highlights and shadows in different areas of her skin, clothes, hair, flowers and jewellery. I added a sharp lighting to her upper hands then painted more leaves and flowers also. I've been painting loose braids for sometime and loving the outcome, I intend to do a head full of braids soon, let's see how that goes. I added her earrings and made few adjustments and that's all.
![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leeendah/23t77MAzCYkhUGHu8pQCDLTsC31hhenayF3CEeW6ZYZQzY7fPQn4VgsBXsSYsQ7gpcZuh.png)
![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leeendah/23t78tpP8AmUVHvMrmSfqktV3QnhDrVgcdqKEyEAM6Fum7TxFwpMr4VzFJQ61Eg9MEhER.png)
![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leeendah/23t79KvoxRipRE87fkb6rxfJbdR7WPV2Dsf9ukZC2QimTFqgCFzeshVCZ56bAY9mSuxk8.png)
![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leeendah/23tGZmWHdpDCCbQo52hVWG6LWsauhYBag8bAaeXGGaMwW7mb7sfyR1MYAToa1dCw9iGJ6.png)
I think this colour pallete is really beautiful and blended perfectly, even more than I expected....
Tools Used
Adobe Photoshop cc2019
Huion drawing tablet and pen
Thats all for now, thanks for visiting my blog, I hope you have the most amazing weekend....