Splinterlands Art Contest

Hiii guys ^^
Here’s my entry for the Splinterlands Art Contest. This week I decided to draw the beautiful “River Nymph”. For the sketch I didn’t know how I should draw her. Draw her as she’s laying on the beach or as she is in the water. After some thoughts I decided to do the latter.
It was a little bit challenging to draw her in the water cause I’ve never drawn sea before but anyway it’s always wise to take some risks :D You know, in traditional art when you start coloring there is no undo button :D and I had to draw the waves very carefully with low pressure so I could erase it if I messed it up.
Blended the background colors with a blender pencil.
Hope you like it~ ^^

Used a white pen for highlights on her lips and used paper cutter for the highlights in her hair.

Materials

Prismacolor and Faber-Castell colored pencils on Steinbach paper
Paper cutter

Sketch

Progress

Original Pic