Ah! Its finally done! It was nice to spend a long-ass time coloring something, and it was a good excuse to draw some of my other characters, and HARK! One of my female characters! XD I do have them I swear. I may do more pics of them while I work on my "secret project" (you'll hear about it next month) and mascot designs for the fire dept. and drafting TSFH.

Anyway. These are the first two main characters the audience is introduced to in my one of my own comics entitled "The Chosen One". The elf girl is named Kittika, and the elf boy (many of you may be familiar with him) is Terith.

And this is how they meet. Suffice to say, they get off on the wrong foot.

Terith, having been traveling through the woods and hungry, smelled food being cooked. So of course his first thought is to steal it, because thats the kind of guy he is .

He spies that the person setting up camp in the clearing is a female Desert Elf. This is odd in itself, for one she's a bit out of place in the middle of a lush forest. For two she has no male escort.

See the culture of the Desert Elves is a society where women are second-class citizens. So knowing this obviously Terith saw her as a push-over... until she pulls a bow on him. Now a female Desert Elf should most definitely NOT be trained in any weapontry. So she gets the better of the would-be theif, but her food is ruined in the process. She kind of has it in for him from there on.

The two, ultimately, get caught up in an adventure together. Kittika doesn't talk much about her past and origins, and for the longest time she won't call Terith by name. She just calls him "thief". And they're two VERY different people. Kittika is a bit hardened, high strung, and just a bit up-tight. She's good at heart, but she seems to have trouble trusting people. And she most certainly doesn't enjoy putting up with Terith's nonsense, for he on the other hand is carefree, careLESS, and quite mischeivous and unruly.

I really hoped to make Kittika stand out in this picture, make her look magnificant, because really, with their rich dark skin and shining blonde hair the Desert Elves are an impressive sight.

The style and color of her outfit are taken from a few influences, but mostly of a Aztec/Mayan/Mexican flare with a bit of Native American mixed in. I used to have a pattern on the collar of her dress, but I think I like it being just plain dyed blue leather.

From the beginning I knew I wanted to do the background completely digital (the tree Terith's pinned against is drawn however) and it ended up reflecting a bit on my old ELEMENTS picture a little bit. I also ended up using darking colors, like I used to in alot of my old CGs. I was going for a bit of a sponge-painty look for the background though, you know, make it look more like a book illustration. I like doing backgrounds like this because I can loosen up, experiment and get a little crazy.

India Ink on Bristol Board
Colored in Adobe Photoshop CS
Brushes By:
~trulysarah ~orchidee *rebeccasx ~ sakurakira x_X And some others I'm sure I forgot. Sorry.