Hi friends, this week I'm a little late but sure, I was quite busy but I wanted to participate in @Splinterlands art contest which has become for me a weekly habit, this time as I was very short of time I decided to do a portrait, something I love and I find it easier to work with, I decided to do it with enough realism and effort to make it look quite powerful, this time I chose the card of Larissa Kerato which has a style that would adapt very well to represent in a portrait, I wanted to use many cold tones to give a purple/blue lighting to the whole image, I think these colors looked pretty cool to make this face, accompanied by a dark background that would help to highlight much more the purple neon colors that I did simulating her power, it was a very satisfying work to do, I really hope you like it.
This card does not have as many details as many others, so it would be a perfect candidate to make a portrait, besides having some divine colors, I had not noticed the horns on her forehead until I started to make the sketch, I always detail everything more closely while making the sketches and when I saw this I was even more delighted, I liked it a lot, so I made the sketch adapting as much as I could to the original design and chose the colors to work with, which were in this case a range of purple tones, since I wanted a different lighting for this drawing, I applied the base colors and in a new layer I added more tones that would help to give a little better shape to the features, for the hair I filled with a dark purple desaturated, in another layer I mixed the colors of the skin giving it a more realistic finish, also the hair, where I painted different light and dark strands to give that movement that I was looking for.
I placed the base colors of the clothes, using the reference as a guide, extracting these same colors but with a less saturated tone and applying them in each garment, then I gave details of shadows and lights to give the texture of metal and fabric.
Now I changed the background to a dark color almost reaching a pure black and I started to paint the horns of the forehead, which I painted with a black base and then I added some light details to give it volume, with the selection tool I made a figure in the background using a purple color and applied a blur, I duplicated this layer but without blur and changing to a lilac color, I also modified the layer style to "screen" to give it the brightness I was looking for, finally I edited the drawing playing a little with the curves, I managed to darken it a little more and highlight some details of light and color, until I was satisfied with the result and that's it!
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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Rarible : alexaart
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Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
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Ghostmarket : alexa
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Twitter: Alexa_Ys
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Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859
Thank you! 💌
Beautiful art you have got here😊
The coloured art images are amazing but if you ask me, I will go for the one without colour...it looks unique and beautiful😍
Thank you!! oh Yes, I like it that way too 😁
Oh I love this card and your representation of it. The look on her face and her little horns are just perfect. Goodluck Alexa
Thank you so much dear @leeendah
¡Es hermosa! Para mí es la ganadora de esta semana 😍
Aww Muchas gracias @mario02 🙏 mucha suerte!