Happy evening everyone, I hope you had a good day.
This week I'm presenting in the @Splinterlands art contest and I have chosen a card that I had never drawn before and I hadn't really done it because I was a little afraid of the armor and all the costumes of this card, but this week I was encouraged to do it turning a little bit the idea of being 100% faithful to the card and making a change that fits better to my drawing style, this time I wanted to make a portrait with a very sweet face and huge eyes, plus a long red hair but without saturating it too much color, to give it a little more realistic color, I made her holding a huge diamond and around small diamonds floating, a background of a sky with a blue and purple tone, besides changing the costume, I didn't want to put a helmet because if I'm honest I have never drawn one, I tried to do the sketch but it was horrible haha, then I decided to keep these wings that the helmet carries on the sides accompanied by a long and abundant hair, it was a pretty difficult job because I had to redo a little the whole idea I had mainly because of the changes I made in the costume, I hope you like it.
For the sketch I took a whole afternoon, as I mentioned it was quite difficult, I tried several times to make the helmet but it did not come out well, I am a perfectionist person and if I do not know how to do something I just prefer not to place it because later I will be hating myself, the posture was also a big challenge but little by little I managed to leave a decent finish to the arms and hands, I wanted huge eyes like the anime ones, I have never done that style but this time I tried to achieve it, with very fine features so it was not so realistic, I chose the colors to work this time I chose skin colors of pink and some purple tones, I applied the colors all over the face marking where the lights and shadows would be, I thought it was nice to leave light in the chin area because the light of the diamond would bounce there, but I don't know why I did it in orange, then later I changed the light to a cooler tone to make sense with the reflection of the diamond.
In a new layer I added more colors and began to mix them to leave a smooth finish to the skin, I thought about leaving the arms uncovered and also painted them, but then I decided to place them in a dark purple color to simulate sleeves, similar to those of the original card.
I painted the wings gold, then the hair, adding different shades of brown and orange, then I started to paint piece by piece each part of the clothes and with the help of clippling masks I started to fill in one by one, giving it volume and more shape, after having the clothes ready, I started to paint the diamond, for this I used many shades of blue and some grays and yellows.
I finished filling the diamond, I drew different shapes inside it to give it that real diamond look, I also needed a lot of brightness, so I put some white and yellow dots and lines in some corners, I changed the background to a light blue, I really had no idea what to do, in the end I chose a background with a dark sky with purple and blue tones, I really like the sky and it is something that I apply very often to my drawings, then I added small diamonds floating around and of course I had to add a lot of light, because it is something that fascinates me, so I created a new layer of lights where I began to illuminate certain parts of the face, clothes and diamonds, I finished my drawing, editing the photo darkening it a little and also adjusting the intensity of the image.
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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Makersplace: alexaartx
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¡Gracias!
beautiful and fantastic👏☺😚
Thank you 😁
yo are welcome😊
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Keep Up the good work on Hive ♦️
HERMOSO ❤👏👏👏🙏
Muchas gracias!💗
Dios... Que hermoso trabajo, ese cristal me dejo hipnotizado. Para mí ya es el ganador de la semana 💎
Ay! muchas gracias @mario02 😁😁
She looks like a pixie, so beautiful. Goodluck
Thank you so much!
Beautiful creation as always 💓
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Thank you! 🥰
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Aaaaasah so amazing, so magical and extraordinary piece.💜💓