Studies for Jadis

Here are the studies I did for Jadis in my painting, "The Magician's Nephew." [link] Being extremely dissatisfied with the design for this character in the first Narnia movie, I decided to take my vision of Jadis back to her roots in Charn. She's wearing a pale green tunic with a jeweled art nouveau style halter top and an Assyrian-esque fringed red mantle wrapped like a skirt. Her jewelry is inspired by various Bronze age finds such the jewels found at Ur [link] and Schliemann's "The Jewels of Helen." [link] For her face, though, I was inspired by the main character in the video game "Salammbo." [link]