Dejah Thoris

A painting I did for the Ethnique Women contest.
I decided to portray one of my favorite woman characters of all time, Dejah Thoris, as described by Burroughs she's a "slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women... Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect."
I decided to place Dejah on the rocks of Mars with her looking at the starry sky as she would wait for the return of her love, John Carter.