The Queen of hearts

The Queen of hearts has no real physical description except to say that she is a card like the gardeners. From this I vaguely tried to draw her more oblong but I couldn't really go that far with it as it wouldn't have fit the format. Instead I did some research about the fashion of the times (1865)  with royals. It seemed to mainly be about detailing so I only did a little bit of sketching before moving onto the one I could really add onto. I also tried to get across her personality as it's so well known. I spent a while looking at how to draw her face and lips.

I chose to draw lots of extra line and pattern into this one as she's meant to be off a playing card and that seems to be some of the design  traits on them. I also thought that while adding detail I should enforce the hearts. I think I ,managed to get her personality through with her expression and posture.

I tried to her as a similar colour scheme to the playing  cards that mainly use yellow, red and blue. I think that perhaps that I should have done the background in blue as well to tie it all together but I do like the affect of the yellow background. I also think this is a great one for the coloured lines as they all stand out but aren't separate like they were in black. This extra lines really add to this.