Introduction

Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. She is usually seen with two ghost hounds that were said to serve her. Today she is often seen as a goddess of witchcraft and evil. Hecate is said to haunt a three-ways crossroad, each of her heads facing in a different direction. She is said to appear when the ebony moon shines.

But I would like to create something a bit different to the real myth, in my mind, there must be a round moon behind her. As in history, she is said to haunt a three-way crossroads but to create something different I'm going to put three keys in her hand. Hecate is the Greek goddess, with Greek traditional clothes, so I will give her a long skirt. I don't know why all the girls in my paintings are heartbroken; maybe there is a crack in my own heart...


Sketching

I start out with a blank, white document. Following my original concept, I want to set my image in the night. She will have a light in her left hand with three keys, walking around the three-way crossroad under the moon. I was satisfied with the sketch.


Adding up

I draw the first color on a new layer. Picking out colors for a palette is a very good idea, even at the first stages of a painting. I put both a deep blue color and a skin color on this layer.


Beautiful Face

I keep drawing using my technique; my goal is to paint her face. I chose precious stone's blue color to light her eyes, the tear stream from her eye, her lips shut tightly.; I finished drawing the figure of the body and the skirt with colors. All at once, I want to attempt to change the colors to give my painting a different feeling and to make it prettier. To achieve this I used Photoshop's Color Balance to change the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. (Each group of colors could display a different mood; it's very difficult to give them up. But I choose the right side colors’ component.) With embellished hair and lips, the face's inharmonious part have been adjusted, the face is now basically complete.