Goddess of Ice and Fire

My submission for an art contest, the only rule being we need to use a particular palette, that being... this:

This is my first ever entry for any contest on Steemit as I'm brand new here. I am using a Surface 3 and paint.net to draw with (open source freeware).

I started out with a rough sketch using a fat brush to block out the figure.

Then as I begin refining some of the lines, I gradually switch to a finer brush size and use a darker shade of blue.

When I feel the proportions and position of the figure looks ok, I create a new layer to make the black outline.

I use the magic wand select tool to select the areas of color and fill them in. Then just freehand add details using other colors from the palette. In retrospect, probably should have done the color details on a separate layer just so I could show the extra step in between, but live and learn.

Then create another layer for the background. The sky is just a gradient fill from black to blue, then using the eraser to speckle some stars in the sky. The water was just a solid fill of lighter blue, then using the magic wand to select everything below the mountains another gradual fill of transparent black to 100% transparency. Easy way to phone in a background...