No Good Deed

Ok, first off I kinda wanna dedicate this to because her fandom of the musical Wicked inspired me to get the soundtrack.
And needless to say, I became a little obsessed.
The song "No Good Deed" has to be one of my favorites because it's where Elphie questions everything she's done up to that point...and it struck a chord with me
I wanted to portray the emotion involved and all that junk, but I really just wanted to do some Elphie fanart, because I adore musical Elphaba.
I tried my hardest to draw the dress she wears, but holy crap is that thing elaborate, so this is a waaaay simplified version of it.
The book she's holding is the Grimmerie...I imagine she's slammed it shut because she doesn't know which spell to try, and this is the part where's she's thinking of Nessa, Dr. Dillamond, and of course, Fiyero.

her face is a little...off....and i know her hair is supposed to be black, but I'm not a huge fan of using black, so I made it dark brown. artistic license! ^^
also, once again...cheap bg...i hate backgrounds, so i threw in some blurry, airbrushed trees. enjoy!

well that was a long description. Hope you enjoy!

References:
Dress: [link]
Hair: [link]
Original Sketch: [link]
(use my sister as a pose reference...gotta love younger siblings and digital cameras!)
Song Lyrics: [link]

Tools: references, tablet, pen tool, corel painter essentials
Time: ~4 hours

Wicked (c) Gregory Maguire
Musical (c) Winnie Holzman & Steven Schwartz