Huldra

I have a big softspot for folklore from many countries and cultures. The other night the song Herr Mannelig started playing in my playlist and I was reminded about the Huldra, a seductive forest creature that appears, as wiki puts it, "a stunningly beautiful, sometimes naked woman with long hair". From behind she is hollow like an old tree trunk and is often depicted with a tail.

I went with the Swedish version in this case, which can have a fox tail, and decided to have both the hollow body as well as adding bits of bark around the upper edges. I drew the piece first then used reference to clean it up.