digital illustration of Belladonna, a fae woman with a peacock motif. She is smirking, but the upper half of her face is covered by swooping feathers she is holding crossed over her chest; the eyes on their tips are placed where her actual eyes would be. Her hair is long and stringy, with strands over her face and had a gradient from ocre to a dark teal blue. Two white, plume-like antennae are sprouting from her head.
She has five wings with eyes on them: one in a teardrop shape behind her head, two that are placed at her shoulders, similar in shape to those of atlas moths and a set of smaller ones below, more elongated with a curl to them and a lot of fringes. The wings are mostly teal with an oil spill gradient. The bottom ones are a bit more ocre at the tips and the fringe.
Belladonna is wearing a ocre dress with a boob window and three slightly asymmetrical tiers to her skirt. There is a white fringe running diagonally down the front to the bottom of the first skirt tier and another along the he, of the second tier. She also has a feather-like cape in ocre and teal.
The shape language is taken from a page from the 1896 book “The animal in decorative art” with illustrations by Anton Seder. This particular page shows different ornaments inspired by peacock feathers. The image can be found in the bottom right corner.
There are doodles of little critters around the page that directly reference the inspiration image by interpreting Anton Seder’s illustrations as silly little animals. There is a chameleon in the top left corner (my favorite) and a sort of dragon/wyrm, a crabby little guy and a jellyfish on the top right.
Got another one for #30DaysofCharacters and y'all, I wanted to design a pretty creature so bad but time said no. So have Belladonna instead! 👁️ She sees everything even though no one knows if she even has real eyes in her skull. Don't make a deal with her
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