Hehe, lighting did take a good amount of time to get it "right" ^_^ Here's my biggest discovery I made when coloring this peice: the "satin" layer effect! I'd used it before, but never like this... I had to go through the effort of merging everything down and cutting out the figure entirely to apply the effect over her whole body. Results were well worth it.

Thanks about the description! I left it very abbreviated ^^ Here's the whole quote (said by the person who first tried to care for her): "Just as ashes are born of flame, I beleive this girl of ashen wing and golden halo is born of Brigit, the Everlasting Flame." Little Maha here is the next incarnation of the Sun Goddess Macha... or one of them, anyway ^^ She's like a cross between the Sidhe/Tuatha de Danaan and Angels. Of course, she was "born" knowing only the SOUND of her name, not how it should be spelled... hence she is Maha! It's an excuse for not being able to get the character name "Macha" on the server I joined when I created her in City of Heroes ;)

The color I used is Photoshop CS's "Darker Warm Brown"... it's a bit lighter and greyer than it would be if I'd applied it full-strength, though. I have that layer with only a 70% fill and 40% opacity. The shading from the original pencil sketch shows through... though there's also a bit of low-fill white in a seperate layer overtop of the brown, smudged around a good bit, to help highlight. So.... it's really quite a mix of colors, lol!

I'm happiest with the hair ^_^ As a random side note, she grows it out as she gets older ;) This pic could be of a little girl OR a boy, lol!