Have you ever had that moment when you draw something and it turns out even better then you imagined? this picture started out as a sketch that I did and then I thought "Hey why not turn it into a digital painting?" In the past I've had bad luck when trying to use digital painting styles because I usually just use the same style that I use to illustrate my comic Love Is Magic Love Is Magic. But this time I pushed myself to try other ways of painting with soft water color brushes in the program Kirta and after messing around trying to shade bright pink and white, which as you can guess are hard colors to shade in a darker lighting, I changed it to gray scale and tried that after getting to a point which i was happy with I colorized it which is usually the point when gray scale fails me, but this time I was somehow able to colorize it successfully. leaving me with a result that I was happy with. then I thought " I'll try one more thing' I put a shadow layer over Fleur and erased where the highlights are. creating an effect which blew my mind. So i can say that this picture pretty much happened by accident using technique which I wasn't even sure would work. Anyway I hope that all of you like it as much as I do.