The Forest Bride

This started out as a scetch for a painting, on watercolor paper.  I got a little carried away with the shading on her skin, which incidently turned out to be descent, so I decided to keep it as a drawing. I kept thinking of the finished product in color, making it difficult to focus on the more detailed lines and shading, which so happened to be a challenge of its own, a detailed drawing on course watercolor paper. In the end the shading on her breasts, and face, made sticking to graphite worth it.