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Easter Bonnet

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In the style of Alfons Mucha :)

I've not drawn an Easter-themed picture before, I don't properly celebrate it but I do like a lot of the old traditions which have got mingled in with the later religious story, and can certainly get behind the idea of decorating a hat with ribbons and bows and whatever seasonal flowers can be found - clearly so can Ambrose :D Laurence said the bonnet looked better without the oversized twigs of hedgerow thorn blossom tied on, but it's impossible to stop Ambrose doing something he's passionately - or stubbornly - set his heart on, and he wanted wild blossom on his hat so there!
(This is why I had to look at photos of daffodils the other day, I couldn't remember how they worked - even though I have some in my garden it was raining, and I didn't want to go outside, heh)

The frame-background here isn't copied from any one particular Mucha painting, I just made one up in the general style of his work. I'm not sure if that was easier or more difficult than having a reference to recreate, on the one hand it left more opportunity to improvise and just go with what happened (the loose strands of border line are entirely based on what I could make the 'select path' tool do with very little experience or control over what happened when I clicked things, lol), but having to invent it all from scratch was a bit daunting when it's such a distinctive and well-known style, heh.
Mucha used a lot of female figures in his scenes, nearly nude or half-covered in clingy fabric which showed off the curves, so in these modern more equal times I think it only fair to have a scantily clad male modelling the bonnet - no-one else in the cast of characters would have enjoyed it quite so much as Ambrose anyway, it had to be him : he adores flowers and hats, and posing prettily :D

The working title (and still the filename) for this was MyPrettyFloralBonnet, butI decided against calling it that on here incase anyone clicked in expecting Firefly fan-art and was gravely disappointed by the actual subject matter, hahah

(I've uploaded the lineart here if anyone's interested in work-in-progress screenshots, you can see how much time I put into details which won't even show once it's coloured, heh ;) )
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You're so good at this style.