White Witch

As the white witch isn't human (she's half giant half genie) I wanted to make her look a little otherworldly, This is the description taken from The chronicles of Narnia wiki: http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Jadis#Physical_appearance The Witch was a seven foot tall, strikingly beautiful and Amazonian woman, with a look of such fierceness and cold, stern pride that it took your breath away. She was depicted with long black hair and very red lips, and had an excellent sense of style, as she always dressed in an extravagant manner that showed off her power and status. In The Magician's Nephew she was depicted in long, flowing Romanesque robes, while in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe she wore white furs that covered her up to her throat. She also always wore a gold crown. She had white skin, though presumably it originally had a more golden hue colour (as seen in the illustrations by Pauline Baynes), but after eating the apple from the tree of life in The Magician's Nephew, her skin turned as white as salt, and remained so in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The description I used was taken from as many sources as I could find to ensure it was right but this one shows the traits I tried to show in her appearance. I found a skull based crown on pinterest while looking for possible reference but modified it to suit her better. I thought the skull was particularly good for portraying her as a villain and shows how cold she is, especially with the spikes. The dress was also from a pinterest image that I thought with different colours would work well as an ice/snow themed extravagant dress. I think it worked well but I wish I could have made the detailing on her dress a shining silver instead of a pale grey. After learning how to foil at Hallmark I Think that would have been how I would have done it for a proper book. However that would mean finding something to foil in every drawing for consistency, maybe it would have worked for a front cover. Her eyes were one of my big focuses as I think it's one of the most easily recognisable as being villainous. I really wanted to elongate these ones to reinforce the alien quality, however as I've never really drawn eyes like this before it was really hard to keep them consistent. There's one eye on the first page that I think captures what I was wanting to do but I was unable to replicate it at the opposite angle and when it came to drawing it smaller, it became a lot harder. I think the eyes I finished with are decent but could still be improved. I drew her looking above and to the side the viewer as if she's bored of you and that you are beneath her. I tried to do this to get her character across. The major flaw in this drawing for me is the line work, in black you could see how severe she is but as I'm not quite used to colouring my lines yet I don't think I made them stand out enough. I do think however that colouring my lines is something I should pursue and try to get better at. This is also the first of my drawings that I tried the texture out on, it seems to work at making that blank space more interesting but it makes the background colour a lot harder to do as no matter what I do I can't seem to get a decent overall colour. This is another thing that I need more practice with.