...just add magic

The goal of this picture was to create something dreamy and fairy-tale-like. It doesn't look exactly as I planned beforehand but I'm still quite pleased with it. I just wish I hadn't come up with the idea of sorta "traditional" shading (hit download for full-view to undestand what I mean)... it was such a painful and totally unappreciated effort. Now I know what NOT to do in the future.

The coloring technique was inspired by toonikun's tutorial. Of course I'd love to draw my pictures in similiar style (which is downright gorgeous btw) but that would be a ripoff, don't you think? So I tried to be at least a little bit more creative - you can see how I ended up =_=". Whatever.

Might be continoued but I promise nothing. Textures and brushed - as always - belong to their owners/creators.