Oh if only I truly was magic. But like I said, around 5+ hours (READ BELOW)
Responding partially to both Tich AND Lamii here- I will say I started the sketch and finished this picture on two seperate days. I think it took at least an hour and a half or so of sketching, resketching, metaphorically balling it up and starting all over again before I ACTUALLY began painting.
And when I did I worked on and off, getting up to do other things, rest, and then art some more. So it might really have taken 10+ hours XD I'm prolly guesstimating very badly here. And before I forget Lamii, I've been arting for a long long time. Ever since I was a wee thing- and I think I've been 'seriously' working with art for at least four years, since I've been a part of Deviantart for that long. That's when I really started to work hard with my artwork and take it seriously.
But gosh guys, thank you SO much. The feedback on this is astounding. I just put this up and when I refreshed the page I had 7 new notifications.
Love~
ALSO:
To show you guys what I meant by how many times I actually redid this image before painting began, have a look at one of the concepts I scrapped-
Also somehow didn't notice that until just now. ....now I can't get that out of my head DD: