Snakewoman as the Star

Another Tarot card of the major acrcana, the Star, meaning can be found on the internet, this is just a quick post to show you.

For this card I used another awesome Rick St. Dennis image, she 's called Snakewoman.

Some of you have been asking how I coloured this Snakewoman, so first the card and then my I pod pics so you can see step by step.  I usedCaran d' ache Luminance 6901 pencils, odourless whitespirit and paperstump.

here are my i pod pics

the plan was to make the body blue and the snake tail purple, and then suddenly there was orange in the tail, cause the blue and purple looked boring to me LOL

then came the point I had to think how to solve this, cause if there's orange in the tail, there should be some in the body too (dunno why, it just has to be)

so made the orange a bit more bright at the bottom of the tail

and then started to fill the white high lighted spots with orange, carefully not to dark

 then she looked like this and I thought "under water look" LOL

and then I didn't know where things were going, so i put it aside and just let it be over night, thinking it needed more purple, cause of the purple in the tail

so next day after work I added more purple  to the body and the face

made the tail a bit 

darker and gave her some eyeshadow

made the face a bit lighter cause I thought it was to dark and didn't like it

coloured the "clothes" and hat

coloured the jewels and the snakes, eyes and lips

made some last changes, some things a bit darker , some things a bit lighter, hard to see I guess

 so for the ones who think I know what I am doing, sorry, I just colour till I like the result, LOL


I will enter this in the following challenges

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/colour-inspiration.html

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/month-long-prize-challenge-june.html

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/masculine-cards.html

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-163-opposites-attract.html

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/masculine-father-day.html

http://www.gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/gl-critters-of-sea.html

http://dominoartblog.blogspot.nl/2013/05/dominoart-challenge-4-week-2-of-any.html

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-june/  i know this is not a tag, but I was inspired by the colours of the tag, I used distress ink in the background and stickles,