Hi all!

The idea of the image is based on an amazing fairy tale "The Scarlet Flower" (Russian: "Аленький цветочек"; First published in 1858) by famous russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (Russian: Сергей Тимофеевич Аксаков ). For those who have never heard about this fairy tale I can tell that the idea of the world known Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is very close to "The Scarlet Flower".

In this painting I tried to show my vision of the main female character, beautiful and young girl. While she's carried away by the beauty of the Scarlet Flower, the beast is watching her from the dark forest. She doesn't know that she's holding a soul of the beast in her hands. So beautiful soul of a terrible beast! Good inside of evil.

About the painting:
Drawn in Painter and some final steps and effects in photoshop. Used some of my own refs for the girl's pose.

C&C are welcome!

PS For some reasons I had no new posts here for a long time. Now I'm back and I missed you my fellow artists so much!