Tar-Míriel

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How absolutely beautiful! I particularly love the details like the bird, the embroidery, the ridges and pearls on her glove, and especially the way her cloak turns into a wave.

I really like your technique. I'm just getting back into traditional art for the first time really in almost 30 years (eek!) so I'm curious to know, is this ink and pencil?

Thank you! This is a mix of various technical pens, brush pens and white gel over a pencil sketch (erased). I just added an earlier version of the portrait and linked a video with steps animation. You can see it at YT for example. The main image is scan, I also erased some marks from the background after scanning. I am much more satisfied with the final image, but the older one had a better bird - I forgot about its wings in the newer version ;)