Sirion, the Guardian of the woods

This is a pic I made as a birthday gift  for my friend of her beautiful character Sirion in a more "realistic" style <3 
I had to work on it along many days during small breaks from my doll work but I managed to finish it on time!

Sirion is the Guardian of all forests in Escaron's book-series called "Legend of the Clearsighted".

  I HIGHLY recommend you to go take a look on her gallery! She is a wonderful sculptor and she recently started to work on art dolls too!!   

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I would call this a "photoillustration" because I painted Sirion and the shadow he does on the floor over a photo ( nope, I didn't painted the background by hand xD), but this is still the most complex thing I've ever painted! ( and actually, my 3rd digital illustration and the very 1st time I try this kind of lighting ) so I'm pretty proud of it!

Painted in Photoshop CS5

Hope you all like it ^-^