My project in Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate course

I wanted to publish my project to show you how I might present this project!
My first step is to write down my ideas. Below I identified "The sense of wonder I feel when I discover something new." as the driving feeling for the illustration. I also made notes about my character a young girl, who's a witch!

After that I gathered reference to help support my idea. I focused on forest photography, film stills and illustrations of forests and forest tunnels, as well as some character art that I found inspiring. (I labeled each of them so you can look up the artists!)

I did some sketches on paper, and photographed my favorites and put them into procreate.

Next is my refined drawing, with some rough soft values to work out the composition:

Next is my rough color composition:

And finally the fully painted and composted illustration:

That's my final project! The feeling: "The sense of wonder I feel when I discover something new." represented in an illustration showing a young witch discovering something magical and in a mysterious hidden place!