Jungle Elf

This painting started out as a warm up sketch, then it evolved into a value study. I wound up pushing it a bit more by adding a background. I decided to try working out a depth of field effect. Then I played with giving the environment a a sense of temperature, to portray hot and steamy.

The general idea of the figure was that if, if elves lived in the forests of the world, they'd probably be found in the jungles, too. I wanted her to be both primal and elegant. I leave it to you to decide how much I succeeded in what I was trying to accomplish.