Space Faerie - coloured GoH image

[Sapphire Faerie]

I got to looking at the Gallery of Heroes image of the Space Faerie, and I decided I wanted to try and colour it. I'd never coloured a sketch like that before, so I thought I'd give it a go and see how it turned out. And it turned out rather well:



Click >here< for the original image.

At first I thought it'd be a lot harder than it ended up being, because of all of that glowy magic stuff around her. But I managed ok.

I showed it to Alex as soon as she finished it, and she was all like "Her hands are white..." so I had to explain that it was just the silvery blue magic glowly stuff glowing around her hands. I did that by putting it on a seperate layer and lowering the opacity. So I thought I'd clarify it up front before anyone wondered.

Also, I know I didn't colour her exactly how the already coloured images of her on the site would be. I did that on purpose, I wanted her coloured my way.

[Rachel]

thats really good! i have coloured a number of the GoH images (including the soup faerie), but couldnt get the space faerie right. well done!

[.:Compact Disk:.]

Wow Saph that's so cool!

[Sir Isaac]

That's beautiful! It looks like you colored it with colored pencils rather than a computer. The magic stuff at her hands looks wonderful. Nice job! *thumbs up*

[Angel of Destiny]

That's really nice. ^^ You did a really good job of coloring it.

[Syrill]

That's really good

[Sapphire Faerie]

Thanks guys.

The hardest part was the stuff around her hands, but once I figured out what to do to make it look right, it was easy.

I did it in PaintShop Pro 7. Using the lasso tool to select individual areas, and the colour to target retouch tool to colour.

[Trick]

That's really beautiful - better than the original image too She looks really cool like that, more magical and space faerie like =)