In the next stage of painting, I started on the donkey head and fairy facial features.
I painted in the ground more decisively and painted the large trees in the middle-distance.
On a new layer, I painted the trees in the far distance. These trees are being lit by the moon and not by the spotlight in the foreground. They get brighter and more bluish as they recede into the distance because of this lighting and because of aerial perspective.
I also painted the cast shadows from the figures onto the ground.
Titania’s tattoos were created in Illustrator and imported to Photoshop on another layer. I moved them around and placed them where I wanted them.
Then I changed the layer’s opacity to 60% so they would blend in to the skin a bit.
Finally, I made some adjustments to the image to brighten it up. I changed brightness, contrast and selective colour to get it where I wanted it. Here you can see the “before” image on the left and the “after” image on the right.
