Light of the Dying Day

I created a random art prompts generator to provide myself and others with potential inspiration. I've got a big file of potential pictures now, and this is the first one that I've done.

The prompt the generator came up with was: "This is a picture of a flapper in a library, with a theme of the light of the dying day." Yeah, ok, so the theme didn't really come through because I didn't show sunset colors on her face like I intended to. OH WELL. YOU'LL LIVE. As I was doing the background, which I did first, my thought was OH GOD THIS IS ABOUT TO KILL ME. And then I did the rest of it, and my thought for every single part of it was OH GOD THIS IS ABOUT TO KILL ME.

Done entirely in Photoshop, along with a number of unhelpful errors generated, as far as I can tell, by my Wacom tablet driver going wonky on me. Time: probably 10-12 hours.

And ponder for a moment before you tell me her eyes are off: I traced the major lines from a photograph of myself and yes, my eyes really are that far off. (And I prettified the picture so it no longer looks like me. I mean, for one: she actually has an upper lip. )

I'm quite proud of how the face and hat turned out, and hate everything else.