Midsummer secrets

This was an on and off project. It started out as practice for female anatomy week in art class and ended up as a digital work. Anyways, this was inspired when i was sketching the frame and this middle-eastern melodic music came on and i had a vision of a story in my head about how a desert goddess and a warlord were forbidden to be together for it was a universal rule that the the gods can never be emotionally attached to a mortal... A battle soon broke out on earth and the warlord was forced to fight and would have inevitably die from his mortal wounds. Within his dying moments, he called out to the goddess. She came to him and decided to turn his body into sand and keep his soul bound to earth within the desert where he may still exist. Then, she would appear every midsummer within that same desert and summon his soul within the grains of sand that encompass the dunes. That way, every year they may secretly be within each other's presence without being punished for their forbidden love.

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-ref for the face from *mjranum-stock


Program: PS7
Tool: wacom tablet
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Note: Thank you everyone for the nice feedbacks on this piece and for the DD feature! Quite an honor