Beata Beatrix From Latin beata = blessed plus viatrix = traveller, voyager. Later corrupted into Beatrix (trnslt: blessed one) and popularized as given name by the namesake character in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
A Radiant Lotus portrait and my submission for TennoCon 2026's Community Art Showcase.
This started out as a pencil sketch on paper. Once I got the idea down, I scanned it and used it as "base" to work on digitally. Added all the missing details, fixed the mistakes hands continue being my worst enemy lol and eventually moved onto coloring and making the background. Shoutout to the "Illustrated Atlas of the Universe" I own since freakin' 2005 for all the hi-res photos from Hubble Space Telescope used as inspo/reference for said background.
But because I'm as slow as a snail, it took 3 months of work (sketch was done in early February) to be finished. :P











