Personal Artwork - Hattie Mallot

"Branwen"
This is a digital portrait of a character from a story I plan to write.
The characters in the story are based off fairytale characters, and many of them are actually amalgamations of several different characters. My idea for the portraits was to portray several aspects of each character's personality, themes, and motifs in one image. The character portrayed in this portrait, Branwen, is an amalgamation of the heroine from "The Seven Ravens" and the heroine from "East of the Sun, West of the Moon".
I started with a bust drawing of the character, then arranged the other elements (the forest background, the white bear, the flying ravens, and the falling snow) in Photoshop. Lastly, with the composition finished, I brought the image into Illustrator and added a cutout effect to make the image look more unified.