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Artwork: Exasperated Tiefling

Yet another portrait of a tiefling/demoness. I should probably contrive some project that would make good use of all these devil ladies I keep drawing, so I feel less guilty about the time spent avoiding my real work.

On the plus side, I've found a new and exciting way to avoid drawing legs. I kid—I've used this trick before.

A digital drawing of a young woman with horns, leathery wings and a tail, like a demoness or tiefling. She's standing, immersed up to her hips in a glowing white pool or stream, hands on her hips as she looks just over the viewer's shoulder with a slightly exasperated expression. She has messy purple hair and golden eyes; her ears are pointed and her horns curl back behind her ears. She's wearing a dark gray-blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up past her elbows, a leather corset, striped trousers and fingerless black leather gloves. The background is a blue nebula over darkness.
A tiefling stands hip-deep in a glowing white pool or stream, looking rather annoyed about something.

I had a bit of difficulty with the glow of the pool/stream that the lady is standing partially immersed in. I find overtly digital effects to detract from my particular art style, even though its actually all done digitally. The archetypical example is lens flare: adding a bit of lens flare to an otherwise 'hand-drawn' style almost invariably looks uncanny, and not in a good way. Overly smooth shadow blending can have that effect, I find. Digital effects like bloom for luminous objects can work better, but only in moderation. The line is hard to find, and I'm not sure I'm on the right side of it here.

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