After reading a comment on Paul Lasaine's blog about a matte painting he did that he uses references when he paints, I decided to try the same thing. This is my first drawing that I used references for; The Witch is a combination of many images I found, some on Deviantart.com, some just floating around on the Google. The face is Eva Green. Her last name uses the Swedish pronunciation, Grain, which in Swedish means tree branch. I didn't find that out until after I finished the drawring.
This is an early sketch.
This is an almost finished version enhanced in iPhoto.
This is the final product painted and head scooted to the left in photoshop with an added background of a forest pic, and then painted again. She is supposed to be hidden in a very dark forest... hence the darkness.
