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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Isabella I of Castile

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I totally forgot that I had to write this entry! I hope I haven't forgotten anything about the process xDDD...

This time is the turn of Isabella I of Castile (Isabel I de Castilla) was the Queen of Castile and Leon and Queen consort of Aragón, Majorca, Naples and Valencia. She was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon, and they were known as the Catholic Monarchs. Both of them reconquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom, and supported and financed Christopher Columbus' voyage.

I had several troubles looking for pictures about her, since in ones you could see her hair blonde and in others it was brown, plus there is also a TV show about her life, and the actress (Michelle Jenner) has a very light broen hair colour. In the end I decided to pick a very light brown, almost blonde, and then I added some shades using red tones.

I also couldn't decide the colour of her clothes, since none seemed good to me. I ended up choosing this one by popular demand xD. Here you can see the others:

 
 

For the frame I used this artwork by Alphonse Mucha as a reference, since I liked it and I thought it would fit it quite well. As for some of the details, I used this shape pack by CherubiumAngles, since my Photoshop started to act weird xD.