Ancient Queen

I started painting this perhaps a month - or almost two - back. Prior to that I haven't been doing anything for a while - I was just so insanely busy. This is meant to be a 'warm-up', you know, when you haven't done something in a while you tend to get rusty.....so I wanted to do something relatively 'easy'.

This is very South-East Asian influenced, and also I wanted to do something fusion-y, and also some kind of ancient-queen lady thingie with lots of goldness

I hope I will do something more exciting in terms of concept and composition in my future works, but here it is for now

Some parts of the background have texture overlays from stock texture photos (esp on the top centre, top left and left side).

face midway WIP [link]

face closeup at 60% [link]

print will prolly be submitted later

edit: just removed the borders - the reason i put the borderes in the first place is that it'll match the 1.50:1.00 ratio required for print.