Hello everyone, I haven't posted in a while but I was working on this piece for quite some time. Here is my entry to this week's Splinterlands' weekly art challenge. I got myself a new set of pencils - the Faber-Castell classics set of 60 and wanted to test it out on something a bit more complex, so I ended up choosing Uriel the Purifier's amazing art as reference:
I went for it because it has so much color so many variations and that flaming blade over the character would be a nice challenge. I have never done anything like it in color pencils, only with lead ones so I picked up the challenge and started.
I went with an A5 paper which was probably a mistake looking back but I rolled with it.
Here is the initial sketch process:
After I was happy with the pose and the fitting on the page I went in by starting off with some swatches of the colors I intend to use:
As you can probably tell it wasn't all done in the start I kept swatching and experimenting with different colors as I went through the piece.
Time for the initial first light layer to see how it looks:
My main focus at the beginning was to tackle the most challenging part - the flames on the blade so I had to start off early laying the foundation of where they overlap the helmet, otherwise if I am not careful it will be impossible to get to the effect I am going for by erasing later on.
So we keep on progressing slowly, I was so happy with the blue-ish grey tone that was included in the set it was a perfect fir for the grey metallic color of the armor.
It's time to start going for some more detail:
Some hours later we are progressing really nice:
A few days later when I had the time to get back to it we are nearing the final stretch:
And here it is the final work:
Even though I am very very happy with the end result, the choice of the smaller paper size meant I had to modify the pose and the perspective.
I hope you guys enjoy it at least half as much as I did drawing it it was a ton of fun and I am glad I picked up a challenging character to do. I am still a rookie when it comes to colored pencils so any constructive criticism is more than welcome, feel free to leave some if you have it as a comment, thank you !
The materials used were:
A5 200g/m2 cold pressed paper
2H and HB lead pencils.
Kneaded eraser
Faber-Castell classic colored pencils
A little bit of the Faber-Castell Black edition set and just a little bit of black fine liner.
Massive thank you to everyone who takes the time out of their day to check out my post and have an amazing day!
That is awsome!
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Thank you very much, I am really glad you enjoyed it!
It probably took you some time to just find the right colors to use! but hey great work you have here and amazing you opt to sketch by hand when a lot have been doing digital sketching instead. Anyways, keep it up!
Thank you very much, yeah it did take some time but it was worth it !
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Great job
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Amazing Traditional Technique Bro!! Keep it up!
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beautiful work!!!!
Can you explain to me a little bit how the contest works?
I felt like drawing something.
I haven't done it in a while, and it might be a good way to come back.
Thank you! The contest is a weekly one, check it out here: Link
All the rules are explained in the post. I strongly advice you to get back into drawing I was also out of it for years but am getting back to it and it's a really relaxing time doing so. Ease into it, take your time and don't forget to share with us what you create!
thanks for the ideas. I'm really going back to drawing. Let's see what happens. I will share my progress with you. I'm going to check all the tournament information. Thank you very much!
You are welcome, I am glad that I was able to help!
Awesomely done man! Keep up the good work!
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Good read !PIZZA
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Very good art bro good job 👊👍
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It’s really amazing~ great job 👏🏻
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