This illustration was done for the Girls' Thunderdome on conceptart.org. The theme was fairy tales, and I chose the Grimm story The Girl Without Hands http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html. I chose the story because it was disturbing and creepy, so I wanted to get the same feeling for the illustration. I also wanted an Old Master look to the colors so I used a restricted palette of mostly yellows and reds, no green and very little blue. I used a few webcam shots of myself for reference.