Cotton Candy

Have you ever had one of those moments where you are searching Google for one thing and you find something completely different? That is how this image started. I was looking for some cotton candy art for part of a background and a single image popped up in my search and turned everything I was doing upside down.

What I found was a single pinup image that just pushed all of my artsy buttons. I quickly downloaded the image and got to work saving and then deleting what I had been doing and started a new image. What had started out as a test of a new shiny pantyhose shader turned into a fanart image of 'Cotton Candy' by Olivia De Berardinis. I don't consider myself to be a pinup artist but I can definitely see the appeal it can have.

Here is the original image I used to make this image.

I want to thank my awesome friend @TheLibertineWay for allowing me to use her character Mikayla as the model for this image.