Birthstone Series - Emerald

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So I've been working on a series of artworks involving creating a celestial goddesses who represents the birthstone for each month. This is Emerald, which is the birthstone for May.

Emerald was pretty easy to decipher. It is typically known to be associated with springtime and renewal (so like rebirth of nature per se). It initially made it to be mainly green, but added flowers later on to give more color to it and also add the association with spring. Probably could have put a little more effort into the flowers but since they weren't the main focal point I left them as is. Flowers don't have much detail anyways! XD And the lighter spots on her are supposed to be light shining through trees. I don't think I really got the effect right. It was hard to find good references for that kind of thing. Damn Google failed me once again! Haha.