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Beauty and the Beastby ~Photia

Traditional Art / Drawings / Fantasy

More fairytale stuff!
The oh-so-climactic scene in which Beauty returns to the Beast, only to find him dead.
I've been working on this picture kind of obsessively for the past few days, following a brief bout of B&tB-mania (don't worry, I think I'm over it now). At this point, I can't quite decide if I love it or hate it. I tried a new thing with this - smudging a lot to get the smooth grey tones, then going back and darkening the darks and bringing up highlights with an eraser. It was really kind of fun, and it cut back on time quite a bit. The thing I was really going for was to give her a realistically 'ugly' crying face, while not making her totally unattractive and unsympathetic (I could have gone the wimpy way and hidden her face in her hands, but where's the challenge in that?). That's when I discovered that balancing between romance and realism is a very tricky thing. I may give it a shot later, with hopefully better results.

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