Susan Pevensie
This is my first digital painting. I wanted to learn how to do paintings digitally so I went ahead and took on the task of painting Susan Pevensie (Anna Popplewell) from the Chronicles of Narnia. I’m not 100% satisfied with this piece, but overall I like how it turned out.
I had the hardest time trying to paint her hair. I wanted to go for realistic, but in the end I had to just go with simple color blocks to show the highlights and shadows. Maybe some day I can learn how to paint hair realistically.
The chain maille was also another very hard part to get put on the canvas. I ended up in the end just painting some metal-like rings and using the transform tool to warp them around until I got something I liked. They still look a bit off, but that was as good as I could get it.
Overall, I’m very satisfied with this. As I said earlier, this is my first digital painting. I wasn’t expecting to achieve such a great looking end result, but I did. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should paint next? 
Thanks for taking the time to read through this — If you have any questions or suggestions about the finished painting, you can leave a comment to this blog post and I will respond as soon as possible! 
July 16th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
This picture looks very nice, I think the chainmail came out quite well. Next you should do the rest of the characters from the movie, or something from Monsters INC.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:41 am
@Jim: Thanks! I do agree the chain maille did come out nice, but I still see errors in it that could have been ironed out if I spent another day on it or so. It did come out a lot better than what I originally thought it would have.
As for your suggestions for my next paintings, I don’t think I want to recreate something again. I want to start throwing out the ideas I see in my head down on the canvas. I have a lot of ideas for landscapes, but I just need to learn how to get them down on the canvas.