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I am 100% sure that I would have loved this piece when it was completed, but I also knew that I was working on a series here – every other character has a portrait, and this one wouldn’t have fit very well – and at the time I didn’t have a lot of extra money lying around to commission a second piece.<\/p>\n
So what we did instead, was choose a second piece that would have worked just as well.<\/p>\n
This one would adhere to the effect we wanted for Raithly, and it also adhered to the portrait style we were going at for every other piece that RedPear did for us.<\/p>\n After that, we went through a few other changes before we ultimately landed on a hood down, collar open look for Raithly that looks a little more urban fantasy than the more high fantasy that we usually work with.<\/p>\n I think it actually ended up phenomenally well, and RedPear had a special surprise waiting, too. \u00a0Underneath that coat, Raithly was wearing a ring – it didn’t have anything to do with the original specifications of the request – it was just a little something extra that she put in there. \u00a0This is a case of her art actually informing the character, so the way I imagine it, that’s his late mother’s ring – a nice little touch for the character.<\/p>\n That wasn’t all though. \u00a0RedPear had one last surprise.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n