Submitted on December '07 in Animepaper.net under the "Original Anime Art Wallpaper"

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I’ ve always regarded the relationship between a mother and a daughter very sacred.
I’ ve always believed that our mother’s role is the most important concerning our physical and mental development.
Have you ever thought of yourself being lucky for having a mother? I have. Especially now that she is not here.

Scenario:
Mariel: Mom will you read me a story please?
Mom: Sure sweety, which one do you want?
Mariel: Oh, great! I want the one with the fluffy cloud and the flying camelopardalis. I love this story!
Mom: Ok. Let’s see. Hm, once upon a time in kingdom far away from here there was a kind little camelopardalis that wanted to fly….

Some kids never had and never will hear a story from their mother’s mouth and receive that warm goodnight kiss…
This piece is dedicated to all those kids.

Time: A week more or less
Tools: LOTS (listed bellow)

- Mechanic pencil 0,5 for the rough sketch and Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Wood Texture (for the table): [link]
- Shoes I liked and tried to draw: [link]
- Hand Reference: My own hand (but now I don’t have any nails…bad habit of mine since I bite them XD)
- Book: Quick vector…I am not good at vectoring, you know that XD
- Brush for the pattern on little girl’s dress: [link]
- Texture on the top: My stock used (if you want it just send me a note)
- Picture on the book: My drawing 4 years ago for passing the exams in illustration with traditional media (colour pencils used). We had to create a picture based on a story or poem. I chose a book with funny poems written by Rena Rossi-Zairi (title: “321 counting with Rena” )

Pictures that inspire me to draw the little girl like thumbelina and the whole scene:
Illustration by Rovira F. : [link]
Illustration by Lisbeth Zwerger: [link]
Illustration by an unknown Russian painter: [link]
Illustration by Ada and Svetlin: [link]
I would like to say that I have more than 50 illustrations of thumbelina as it was one of the fairy tales I had to evaluate on one of my essays at the University, so you could say that I have been influenced by lots of different characters and moods. I only present you those that I have like the most. I hope you like them too^^

Dedicated to Svetlin Vassilev, maybe the best Bulgarian Illustrator who i happen to have once watched draw and tried to follow his technique in details. My wallpaper is somehow a recreation of his own illustrations for the thumbelina storybook, so this piece is purely a gift for him.

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