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The future is unwritten

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Shaliara, my character, and Dreiden got married last year after he propposed to her. It was kind of a "secret wedding" because, well, saying "Hi! I am a priestess (ya know, the kind that not get married) and he is an assassin and we want to get married" was not a vey intelligent option. So we made out a story in which he was a noble's son whose father forbade to get married with a peasant, that is, me :) We married ina forest at dusk. It was nice. Laila (~Bayra's character) was my bridesmaid (nice *dress* :mwahaha:... and you got the bouquet :mwahaha: )

So, I had to make a pic for that ocassion. Originally it was made with my old monitor, so I had to get the Contrast/Brightness tool and restablish it to what it was originally :), that is, darker.

I am not very very satisfied with his face. It's one of the few things that it could have me getting back to the pic an re-draw that part. I don't usually do that, but dunno... But I'm satisfied with the details. I wanted to make a lot of details on this one. Dresses and the such and for once I did it with time and not just rushing! :)

I like how her hair and the patterns on his outfit turned out :D Some things are missing tho, I noticed just now of some areas where I didn't draw "residual light" (kind of a color-reflected-light on a surface from another surface)

Thanks =roaming-dragon for checking and correcting anatomy when I was sketching it! :) By the way, sketch is on this [link] on Scraps section! :D

Firts time I used a photograph for reference when drawing background. Didn't do how to make a forest from zero, so got several forest photographs from this stock: ([link]) and picked one. It had a road but I erased it. Took the tones also :) This time I copied the photograph instead of trying to merge it with the charas by applying tons of filters I don't know how to really use... -_-

I drew background on Photoshop. Not usually draw things there (usually it's OpenCanvas) but this time I thought that all the brushes options it had were nice to experiment with (and there are TONS of options! :faint:). Can't remember where the brushes are from, tho. Downloaded them almost 6 years ago... :(

BTW tittle is from a "Legend of the Five Rings" card... :lol:

Resources:

- Photoshop brushes: don't really know where are they from but you can note me and I'll send it to you.
- Background photograph reference from [link]
- Celtic patterns: just enter "celtic patterns" on Google Images...
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Friesan-Pirate-Lady's avatar
Beautiful and very expressive. :)