Shub Niggurath - from sketch to completion

I started off with blocking out the body and the hands, referencing these two pictures:

Sadly i forgot to take progress shots of the face, hair and horns... also the painting of the gown

but i referenced the lighting and colours from one of the pictures from my mood board

I was painting directly onto one layer, simply using the colourpicker to add gradient to the high lights and shadows

gave her a pallor caucasian skintone from this chart

I decided to give her a fur shawls to simulate the fact she lives in the forest. 

here ive also got the blocked out hands on display and the model i very very loosely based her face off of on the left 

the reason for her dark eyes with a golden flare was to signal she wasnt in the slightest human, giving a demony baphomet vibe to her.

here ive coloured in the horns which i picked form the mood board, the goat heads ive found had that eerie green which was perfect fit, contrasting against the red, i did do a hue change on them and though the blue suited the head, overall the green complimented the piece.

also added in the shading for the hands, the light source being on the left baring down

here ive changed the skintone to be more washed out to further show how ethereal and strange she is, really works well with the hair ive given her, before it was brown but the blue brought out the other base colours of red green and yellow and it blended a little in with her hair which i didnt want.

Here I started on the rope accents on her front which hold her pinny up and the rope around her hips

and adding more weight to the shawl and a back to it, along with an unidentifiable limb to further  show its from some animal

I wanted to add some unity to the painting by painting the face and eventually the hands.

here is a before and after picture i was contemplating, extending the nose to be more goat like and strange, thinning the eyebrows to add more focus to the eyes and moving the lips lower and reducing their size, as i found the lips before to look very fishlike from a far distance.

Further realisation that the face proportions were too stretched, i moved things around and gave her more of a forhead and shorter nose, not to mention bigger eyes and it evened out the face alot better. 

i also gave her eyes more of a glow to really make em pop

Finally i painted over her hands in a habberdash way and positioned her left hand over her ear to give her a purpose, like shes listening out for people in her forest.

along with her painted hands i gave her claw like fingernails to add a little bit of sinister to the fair faced goatlady.

also coloured her horns so they didnt look so ugly, i played around once again with the colors but the moss green still stayed the best in my opinion.

also adding blush to her cheeks, ear and hands by referancing my own hand and a friends ear.

I will add a background at a later stage ready for printing. 

also hopefully an OLD GOD feature where her face is a chilling many eyed goat demon