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'Follow Me'

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For ’s “Maiden in Lost Land” Contest: [link]

This is the first complete photomanipulation I started, but the second I completed (I tend to jump where inspiration pushes me. I’ve had some nice landings thanks to dA stockers ^x^) I’ve never done this before, and quite frankly I’m making it up as I go along (aka I don’t know exactly what I’m doing), but I’m rather happy with the way it turned out.

Story:
A young girl playing “fairy” has wandered into the forest following a little rabbit, and gets distracted by the flowers. She’s gone deeper and deeper, finding ever more beautiful flowers as she travels farther, until the surroundings are no longer familiar… she’s accidentally slipped into the world of the Fae. The magic of the forest now has her hopelessly entangled, lost among the enchanted flowers, alone but for the rabbit that watches from nearby. A young woman of the Fae discovers the girl, and offers to lead the child home. Here is where we find them… “Follow me.”

I’d like to thank the stockers for all the wonderful art they provided, particularly *mizzd-stock, whose pose here in the lovely bronze dress actually gave me the idea for this deviation, just as I discovered the “Maiden in Lost Land” Competition. I’d also like to thank :devoddduckoasis: for cluing me in on how to get the text to look nicer by using a bevel effect ^x^ I’d also like to thank my fiancé for putting up with my “will you look at it now, please?” requests over the past few weeks. He has better things to do than try to figure out what minor change I’d just implemented, but he was ever so helpful with a few things that were making this rather… ouch.

I’d appreciate any feedback you could give me on this, and any tips for what I could do to improve things. I’ve never read a tutorial for photomanipulation or gone to any digital art classes, I just cut & dropped images into Paint Shop Pro 7 in various layers and tweaked this and that and cleaned up plenty of pixels to get the little stray bits around the girls and the grass around the bunny. Basically, I made things up as I went along and I lucked into doing things fairly right. Though I think I went a little nuts with the flowers ^x^

Stock Resources:
Child Model - [link] by
Fae Model - [link] by
Fae Model Wings & Rose Vines - by () (Note: Discontinued Stock, no longer available. I have her permission to use them.)
White Vine Flowers - [link] by
Pink Flowering Tree - [link] by
Blue & Pink Flowers - [link] by
Bunny - [link] by
Forest Background - [link] by

Tools: Paint Shop Pro 7, Wacom Graphire 3 Tablet, Intuition, Great Stock, & Luck
Time Spent: Lost track… about 18-24 hours over three weeks.
Original Size: 1200 x 1500

Artwork Copyright ~HuntressLight
Please do not take my work, if you’d like something by me, just let me know ^x^
This may be submitted as Print, I’ll be checking with the stock artists first :nod:
Image size
1200x1500px 3.83 MB
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DeathMystery's avatar
Wow *_* The little one is so cute ))