"Queen Vena" by Cooper Gaskins

I swear, she's an elf. I just...uh...forgot to paint her ear in. It was in the original sketch. Honestly. I don't know where it went.

Ahem. At any rate, this is Queen Vena rac Mazama, my main character. She had a pretty rough childhood and when the first heir to the throne died in an accident, followed a year later by the present ruler, Vena ran away. She was found by a white haired woman who called herself Silver. Silver helped Vena by making sure she could take care of herself, work magic, make it from one day to the next, etc. Perhaps the most important thing Silver did was show Vena what exactly she had inherited anyways. This picture probably takes place after Vena accepted her role as queen.

Drawn from scratch in Corel Painter Essentials 4 and the GIMP (a kind of open source photoshop). Reference photo credit to Faestock, background photo taken by me. I spent way too long working on this and it's my first decent computer painting on my mac. :)