This is a story about a girl Silva. I needed to find an image of a five-year-old girl. First there were the search for proportions

The next step is to choose a color scheme. At the beginning, I chose complex colors, since even though Silva is 5, she is 10 human years old for wood elves.

But in this range, my Silva was not 5 or even 10, but all 18, even though the proportions of the body are childish. So I decided to change things up a bit.

Then I began to develop poses and look for an emotional range

I was also interested in working with different lighting, so I added complex lighting options to the usual lighting. Blue light from the cauldron, light through the hat, etc.

There were several lighting options for the main composition. I chose a more contrasting and view through the leaves that you saw at the beginning.

A small video of the process