Aliena

was based on a photo of Liv Tyler - but the scene is drawn from the The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet, an incredibly passionate book. Aliena is the daughter of an earl who was caught & imprisoned for treason and thus she and her brother, Richard, were left penniless. Since then she went on to build herself up to become a wool merchant to support Richard in his rise to claim back the earldom from their arch enemy, William Hamleigh. Anyway..

done in photoshop over about 4-5 hours.