The Day I died

_{I've deleted much of the description text now. Sorry for spamming you with so much text, guys.
Originally, the description was translated into german, too.}

That's my entry to a contest on Deviantart opened up by . (respectively on the group "Delicious-Fanarts")

The illustrated character belongs to her and is called Aiko.
_{If you'd like to get more informations about her and the other OCs of Seena, you can find them here:
delicious-fanarts.deviantart.c…
www.seena.at/ <-- Attention: This Website is in german only!}

The reason why I've drawn her in a wedding dress is because of her background story.
Aiko has been abandoned at the altar as she was going to marry someone and she never really coped with that.
I wanted to capture this scene in a picture as I felt endless pity for her.
I tried to imagine how it would feel like being abandoned by someone who I love and who I would like to share my whole life with.
After that I also tried to apply this feeling to paper.
The bridegroom really must have been a f***ing bastard to let down such a beautiful bride.

It was my intention to make her appearance a little bit "ghostly" to symbolize that her heart and her feelings "died" on this day. The same goes for the white lights around her symbolizing snowflakes and (inner) coldness.
_{Oh and by the way: I didn't include her cattail deliberately because it is hidden behind her wedding dress.
In my opinion it would have looked odd and misplaced if you could see the cattail here. )}

Originally, I wanted to hold off on uploading this picture and wait till I've made a few more images so that I could upload more pictures at once. But well, after a few days I got too impatient.

It surprised me that this artwork didn't make so much trouble. By my standards it was even going extremely well and quick.
And what surprises me the most is that this contest is already the second one on which I'm very early with my contest entry.
Usually I leave everything to the last minute.

Perhaps I'll do another artwork for this contest (because the OCs of Seena are very inspiring and interesting for me. )
But only if I'll have the time for a second one. First I'll have to finish all the other artworks on my to-do-list.

Materials
water colours (partially Schmincke, partially cheap water colours from the super market )
Faber Castell soft pastels
Polychromos coloured pencils
Copic Opaque White

Credits
Character (c) by
Artwork (c) by me
Drawing Reference used for the background: austriaangloalliance.deviantar… (c) by