"Amber" by Anna Skult

Well, anyway! ...This is a portrait of a roleplay character I played for a while online on Never Winter Nights, a game set in the Forgotten Realms-...place, in a landscape called 'The Silver Marches' ^-^ ..She's a melancholic, alcoholic, poetic, cynical, strange, half-elven bardess, who after being rejected by her object of love in quite a booring way, came up with a tragic story for herself and left her home city. In this picture she's holding her leatherbound book, where she scribbles down all her little poems and stuff. And on her back she has her lovely lute ^-^

The tale she conjured up went something like this: She fell in love with a nobleman, who rejected her, and sent people after her to kill her, incase someone thought the nobleman had mingled with a guttersnipe like her. He'd restore his honour, if she disappeared. Thus, she had to get far away - This story she told people in taverns and on the street, and ended by begging the people to give her money, so she could continue staying in hiding. Clever girl ^-^

Ah, and I'd like to send a big THANK YOU to my friend Anna (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/h/u/huittinen/huittinen.html), who was kind enough to let me use a picture of her as reference for the pose (not the face or clothes or anything, just the pose, which actually was the inspiration for the whole picture =^^=). So yah, thank you Annannanan! =D

Medium: Watercolours, and watercolour feltpen for the black sky. When I then used some white all-covering stuff to make the stars, it turned slightly yellow-greenish in some places, which might be visiable. Maaaybe. Or maybe not.