Sugar and Ice • Tera S Art

Digital painting of Rowan, a caucasian woman with brown eyes and shoulder-length burgundy dyed hair. She is standing in the snow, nude and holding roses in front of her chest. She also has roses arranged on her head. The roses and purple and blue and covered in frost and ice. There are also lilies of the valley, also covered in ice. It is snowing. Cropped close-up of digital painting showing the details of the face, such as the snowflakes on her eyelashes and the ice on the leaves of the roses.

Press your lips to the sculptures
And surely you’ll stay
For of sugar and ice
I am made, I am made

I started this drawing knowing it was gonna be real time consuming, and it was. About 40 hours of work went into it, and about 15 of that was just the plants.

It was very fun to just kind of zone out and really spend a lot of time painting her face, though. I had to redo her mouth entirely at one point and wound up adjusting her eyes a ton but I really like how the face came out.

This is the first time I got to use the icicle brush in the pack I bought. I wound up adding more icicles than there were in the sketch because I was having so much fun playing with the brush.

Brush set (affiliate link): https://www.artstation.com/a/14402900

Progress gif showing stages of the digital painting from rough sketch to completion.