Framed Faux-Paint Fi

Framed Faux-Paint Fi ~ (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Because nothing says "you are important to the story" better than a hand-painted portrait in a snazzy carved frame!  


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About the Piece:

After doing two other "faux-paint" portraits of Princess Zelda and Midna, I decided to break out of Twilight Princess characters and do a portrait of Fi from Skyward Sword as a part of this series. The entire base was drawn quickly in Illustrator before importing it to Photoshop to add gradients and paint on Fi's face. Fi is very human-like in shape but yet doesn't have any really strong features; it's almost like she's made of glass. To keep that sort of appearance going, I relied almost entirely on highlights, shadows, and differences in colors to establish her features. This resulted in a very different appearance for this portrait than the Princess Zelda and Midna ones that preceded it. Knowing that my final product was going to be rather atypical compared to the other faux-paint pieces, I decided to just go with it and make the piece even more different by doing something I actually had wanted to do with the other pieces: frame it! I found some awesome HQ frame stock here on dA from EveyD to use and I think it takes everything up a notch. I made this series thinking of paintings that might hang in the halls of Hyrule Castle itself, so a beautiful carved frame around a "painting" of a companion like Fi is exactly what I wanted to do. I really like how this turned out and I hope you Fi fans enjoy it, too!

I'm also working on "upgrading" the other faux-paint pieces to match. Look for those soon!

Thanks to EveyD for her picture frame stock here: fav.me/d50tfwv

My other framed faux-paint portraits: