Elementary dark fairy, sketch and paint

Elementary dark fairy

milon exists since the creation of the world, so she is known as the queen of the fairies and protector of the planet earth, I have been the only fairy capable of controlling the 4 elements, because of all my power I am considered a goddess, capable of blessing and punishing, bringing prosperity and devastation in a single moment, every natural disaster that occurs is produced by the anger I feel when I see how humans destroy my planet, I still have some hope that they change, otherwise I will have to exterminate another race harmful to the world.

Painted / Pintado

Originally I was not going to make a dark fairy as such, I had the idea of making a natural fairy, controlling the same elements but the wings would be green, representing leaves, but I had to modify it to comply with the rules of the contest, first I began to paint skin to give it the shape and contrast, then I began to paint the elements starting with the fire as it would be the most striking in all the painting.

Shadows / Sombras

The shadows in this case were quite simple because we were against moonlight, so it was just a matter of painting in black and lowering the opacity.

Glows / Brillos

The theme of the glitter is also easy since it was only generated by fire, so the yellow glitter and the shadow gave a very nice effect

Details / Detalles

I had to give the body a lot of shape with ultra small brushes, I didn't realize it until I finished the drawing because it turns out that the size of the canvas was not the one I normally use, after giving all the shape and shadows to the body we went on to the details of the face, which were quite difficult, without exaggerating even a little bit it is very difficult to paint in such a reduced space, that's why if you notice the sketch I made the eyes in the lower part of the sketch, now if I have to choose what was the most complicated thing to do talking about details of the face, I would say it was the nose.

I was improvising a lot in this drawing because I had to make a dark fairy and that was not the original plan, so instead of drawing the eyes as I always do in white, I decided to do it in black color with the white iris which I liked a lot, the same with the theme of the lips I decided to do it in black color and it looks much better than I expected, finally I decided to draw some bright freckles around the cheekbones and so on.

Wings / Alas

It's the first time I did wings and I was quite confused, however the idea of doing it as leaves was still the goal, so I just left the design and started to paint, now I wanted to make the wings semi transparent to have a nice effect with the moon that is behind I also added a watercolor effect to not look so flat.

Background / Fondo

In the background I discarded 3 ideas, the first one, I wanted to make the fairy in front of a waterfall and the second one I wanted to paint a kind of prairie but I didn't have the slightest idea of how to do it, I tried but it seemed something else less what I wanted, so I decided to make it as if it was coming down from the sky, with the moon light illuminating its wings and that ended up being the final idea of the background, I added some bright points so that they would look like stars and I placed some light bulbs coming from the moon.

Final