Birth of hatred

In Vizima's trade quarter a woman says something about Yaevinn only getting the revolution started, because soldiers slew his beloved...

My entry for the witcher contest.
I first wanted to do just a sex card of Yaevinn (no yaoi!!, freaks <.< ), decided in favor of something more complicated: a bloody Warscene between scoia'tael and knights, but somehow it was too much in one pic and chaotic und everyone seemed to be doing action scenes anyway XD. So a friend of mine, who also suggested the other theme, came up with "something that was not in the game".
And the witcher, books or game, is definately about more than just Geralt slaying this and that monster or f...inding this and that woman. The game is mainly also about the fight between nonhumans and humans, Yaevinn being one of the most important figures here and this scene probably the trigger for everything.

I'm still quite bad at painting, may it be digital or traditional (ecxept for Copic markers, but that's sth different). I redid Yaevinns' face and the colours several times, it took me longer than it should have.
It was BTW my intention to make the woman look as dead as possible, so she's not as orange as Yaevinn XD.
I used ref from 2 pics of myself for the woman's pose, and textures on the tree, his wristguards and his shirt from gctextures.com (I still had them from my 3d project ^^)

Photoshop from scratch.
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