These fairies were inspired by Raquel I love how they turned out I think I will use some of these fairies for my final piece. I coloured in my fairy with unnatural skin, eye and hair colours because they aren’t human and this emphasis that.
I love the wings on these drawings I love the colour and the detail in them. I love the bright colours of the fairy with the rainbow wings it reminds me of some of Kaffe Fassett’s work. I love the detail on the boots of the yellow fairy I like the metallic shine and the glow of the swirls because it looks magical. I did more shading on that fairy than the other and I prefer it though I could have added more seen as the pants don’t have any shading. Next time I will improve upon this adding more shading to the orange fairy too. I love the paint spatter on the dress of the purple fairy, I used contrasting colours so that it stands out. I like the wings on this fairy they are more accurate to butterfly wings as it is symmetrical with the top and bottom being the same colour.
I like how the male fairy’s hair and shoes match I also like the wings on this fairy as they are similar to how Raquel draws them. I like the lack of shading in this one while I prefer my drawings shaded I also like the smooth look as it look cleaner. I favour the eyes in the drawings above as I can add eye colours to them. I don’t like the girl as I tried to draw without line art and it doesn’t look as good. I also don’t like the turtle neck on the drawing so I’m going to stick to doing line art. This was also the first fairy I coloured which is why it has a natural skin tone and no wings I don’t like it as much because the wings are missing along with the natural colours you can’t tell that this is a fairy.
These are the fairies I used to in the cottingley fairies photo the girl in the dress originally had ponytails but was unable to keep them as they were too small to cut out. I love the design of the side facing fairy as I like the wings and the pose she is in because they look more real and relaxed. I like the sitting fairy even though she doesn’t have any arms this was an experiment to see what it would look like. Next time I will make sure I to add arm because they fairy doesn’t look as good.