"Remake of Ice Queen" by Dragomir Cristian Madalin

This is not my char ;) though i found it quite cool and seamingly resembling one of my own chars so i asked http://www.elfwood.com//art/f/i/fidreamer/fidreamer.html  for permision to make a remake of it :) permission which i got ;) The original can be found here: http://www.elfwood.com//art/f/i/fidreamer/ice_queen.jpg.html :)

Ok how was this made? Well graphite pen on a printing paper (ran out of drawing one) + a good dose of Photoshop :) The original of my drawing  is unshadded and just in line art. Ok now to the hard part :S critic of my own drawing :S...well lets see...the character is too stiff (i tried) and on a different plane then background, this can be viewed easily because of the level of detail. The possion of the cape is a little messed up and bad shaddowed, also there is shaddow where there is supposed to be light :S ...oh well i tried... anything else you people tell me ;) Just for general info this is my FIRST EVER colored drawing, that i even tried to colored using photoshop so besids:brush, eraser, layers, blur, gradient i didn't use anything else :S...any tips on how to make it look better? ;) i'll try and if it turns right i'll change the pic ;)

Gertie i hope you like it ;)

i took the liberty of making a small story for her as well ;)

'Deep in the mountains of Asken'roth the beautiful princess of ice stood burried under heavy seals of the demon lord Saroth. After 2000 years of tormenting slumber the seals finally got broken and the princess escaped. Looking around she found her home different. The wars between elfs, humen, orcs and grunts (or halfbreeds) ravashed the once beautiful plains of her childhood and killed all her peaceful friends. Saddned by this view the princess lost her smile and at thus turned her heart to ice. The once warm princess of ice was now cold as ice... Deep in his lair in Hell Saroth laughed at his acomplishment and as said in his promise he took his eyes of evil away from her world. But to late it was as the hatred of all races stood great in the path of peace...

One hundred years later a young warrior of unknown half blood and half human blood took step to journey deep in this mountains to find his peace. But fate was not with him as an avalanche swept him deep inside a glaciar. Luckly he wasn't to badly hurt and so he found him self burried deep in ice and seeing as this was his fate he sat down to find his place of peace but as soon as he crushed him self on the ice, he heard a crack and then *Thump* . The warrior fell again deepr in the ice, falling fast on slide of ice deeper and deeper inside the mountain until finally he stopped. But though was dark he found his lips warm. Though was ice arround him his lips were touching something warm. In that moment the sun decided to show its face and through some miracle a reflected light entered the cavern and he saw him self kissing on the lips the beautiful elfen princess trapped this time in a giant block of ice. Little was his fear even though he heard the legends about this place that long ago Saroth passed among the mortals when he was desiguised as humans in different parts of the world.

After a few moments of blushing the warrior's heart stopped as the princess oppened her eyes with a small blush on her face and he saw the warrior in front of her. The blush continued... A start of love or start of war? A Demon Queen or Angel Princess? Which would she be and which would she not? That is the question of what answer my friends you shall find in the hole story ;) (if i get the permission of making Gertie's char into mine as seen here and evolving it in a story i shall put here on Elfwood (one for my training ;) )