Aaaaand a great many thanks to the people who commented on the WIP with suggestions for the background. I had to think it over for a while, and the comments defintiely helped.
As you can see, I've kept a lot of the picture black, added sunlit grass and trees to contrast with the reds and yellows and help set the scene and the lighting, and mushrooms and lowers as details to balance the composition a bit.
Also fixed her eyes, blended the wing webs with paper stumps, added to her belt, and touched up other bits too minor to mention.
Oh, and scanned it properly
More character sketches of these two here Prismacolours and black paper, A4 sized. Another half an hour today, for the background. Total time..uh, somewhere between 2.5-5 hours
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