Through the twilight forest come scampering a beetle faerie and a rather clumsy woodland sprite .....

-----

This is my first ever digital painting, so please be gentle!

This is 95% painted in Painter IX using a Wacom Intuos, with some initial self-designed Poser figures as a starting point.

The figures were originally conceived in Poser 7 using morphs, but I only rendered some very basic bare figures just as a guide to get the general anatomy and poses right, as I'm still finding my way with figure sketching. All the figure detail is overpainted and pretty much nothing of the original renders remain.

Everything else is painted from scratch in Painter IX. I used various charcoal, acrylic, air and oil brushes in Painter, though the majority was done with a soft charcoal brush. Also lots of blending with the good old Just Add Water brush. I switched into Photoshop right at the end for some final texturing and levels adjustments.

There's a narrative to the picture which I may add at some point, but hopefully the image is strong enough to tell the story itself.

The original is 3500 x 5000 pixels in size.

Full resolution 100% details are here