Challenge 52: Fairies Artwork

Hi everybody. For this post I would like to show you more about my work as an artist. The last years I started a great challenge: the challenge 52. This challenge consisted to make 52 illustrations for whole year: one illustration per week trought 1 year. This idea come from of the founder of www.dibujarbien.com "Marcos Raya Delgado". He is an talented artist that provide helpfully tools to improve the drawings skills of his students, I really recomment to check his work. His work is in spanish nevertheless I think that You can take some important tips just whaching his video tutorials.

With this challenge in mind I started this adventure. Remenbering the phase "practice makes perfect" so is neccesary to push yourself to become better artist day than day. This challege was a pretext to keep working. Most of my artwork in this challenge has a fairy as a main character. Fairies have been a source of inspiration since my childhood. I was fascinated by the idea of female magical beings who are guardians of forests and nature. Fairies are mythical beings of extreme beauty, but they hold a power that generates fear and respect. I would like to show you some of artwork that comed from of challenge 52. I hope you like everybody.

"A theory that fairies, were intelligent species, distinct from humans and angels. An alchemist, Paracelsus, classed gnomes and sylphs as elementals, meaning magical entities who personify a particular force of nature, and exert powers over these forces. Folklore accounts have described fairies as "spirits of the air"."
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy

Talking about Fairies Origins:
"Early modern fairies does not derive from a single origin; the term is a conflation of disparate elements from folk belief sources, influenced by literature and speculation. In folklore of Ireland, the mythic aes sídhe, or 'little folk', have come to a modern meaning somewhat inclusive of fairies. The Scandinavian elves also served as an influence. Folklorists and mythologists have variously depicted fairies as: the unworthy dead, the children of Eve, a kind of demon, a species independent of humans, an older race of humans, and fallen angels. The folkloristic or mythological elements combine Celtic, Germanic and Greco-Roman elements. Folklorists have suggested that 'fairies' arose from various earlier beliefs, which lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These disparate explanations are not necessarily incompatible, as 'fairies' may be traced to multiple sources."
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy

"Fairies appeared in medieval romances as one of the beings that a knight errant might encounter. A fairy lady appeared to Sir Launfal and demanded his love; like the fairy bride of ordinary folklore, she imposed a prohibition on him that in time he violated. Sir Orfeo's wife was carried off by the King of Faerie. Huon of Bordeaux is aided by King Oberon. These fairy characters dwindled in number as the medieval era progressed; the figures became wizards and enchantresses."
Text source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy

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Note: All of these artworks has been done with Adobe Photoshop.

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