Queen Luxa

I finished reading Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins the other day. It was pretty good. I decided I wanted to try my hand at some fan art. Sort of. I actually imagine Luxa to be much more pale than this--with almost translucent skin. Okay. so now that I read the character description... she pretty much looks nothing like this... oops. oh well. she looks pretty anyway... xD

"Hands down, she was the strangest-looking person Gregor had ever seen. [yeah, I didn't make her "strange-looking" at all...] Her skin was so pale, he could see every vein in her body. [I was gonna try to color veins on her, but it didn't look right.]"

"At first he thought her hair was gray like his grandma's, but that wasn't right. It was really more of a silver color, like blonde hair with a metallic tint. The hair was woven in an intricate braid down her back ans was tucked into a belt at her waist. A thin band of gold encircled the girl's head."

M'kay. so I pretty much completely disregarded the character description all together. I forgot the braid... and that it was tucked into her belt... eh. She took her hair out of it for me to draw her. yeah. that's it. xD

Edit: okay. I just went back to photoshop and desaturated the heck out of her skin and hair. She was still too blonde and rosy before. I think that's a bit closer to the description. Isn't fan art fun? ^__^

Oh. And it also says that she's got purple eyes. I tried to be subtile with her eye color only because I'm not a big fan of obnoxiously bright unnatural eye color.

enjoy! ^__^

P.S. I might decide to try to re-draw her again later on. You know, with the braid and veins and stuff...