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This is the second drawing in the Wheel of the Year series that I am creating for greetings cards, to be sold at my mother-in-law's store in Norwich, CT [link]

This is for Ostara, the Spring Equinox. The holiday is a celebration of spring and growth, the renewal of life that appears on the earth after the winter. This is one of the two Sabbats when the adolescent Sun God celebrates a sacred marriage with the young Maiden Goddess. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and newborn animals. The God may also be seen here as the newly crowned adolescent Stag King, resplendent in his finery and growing stronger with each day, until he reaches his peak at Midsummer, also known as Litha in neo-pagan traditions.

This drawing was done with:

Canson 9 x 12 inche 70 lb. Drawing paper
0.7 mm Rose Art mechanical pencil

(high tech, eh?)

EDIT: I blended the shading better, tried to add the shadow across her left breast, and blur the grass in the background to give the appearance of distance... let me know if you think it's any better! Also, I redid the clouds now that I have figured out the "right" way to render them!

Description
This is the second drawing in the Wheel of the Year series that I am creating for greetings cards, to be sold at my mother-in-law's store in Norwich, CT [link]

This is for Ostara, the Spring Equinox. The holiday is a celebration of spring and growth, the renewal of life that appears on the earth after the winter. This is one of the two Sabbats when the adolescent Sun God celebrates a sacred marriage with the young Maiden Goddess. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and newborn animals. The God may also be seen here as the newly crowned adolescent Stag King, resplendent in his finery and growing stronger with each day, until he reaches his peak at Midsummer, also known as Litha in neo-pagan traditions.

This drawing was done with:

Canson 9 x 12 inche 70 lb. Drawing paper
0.7 mm Rose Art mechanical pencil

(high tech, eh?)

EDIT: I blended the shading better, tried to add the shadow across her left breast, and blur the grass in the background to give the appearance of distance... let me know if you think it's any better! Also, I redid the clouds now that I have figured out the "right" way to render them!