Battle Fanart

The stellar fight of the night begins!! prepare your bets!! in the red corner a brave soldier Serpentine and against him, in the green corner the giant Grum Flameblade.

This fight wiiiill be legendaaaary!! both opponents are tough and strong, the soldier Serpentine is skilled and resilient, Grum is an immovable mountain, please support in the comments your favorite fighter and tell me who would take home the victory.

Tools:

Gaomon S620
Photoshop
Brushes courtesy of Imad Awan: Download here

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-Step 1:

Based on the designs of the Hive account@splinterlands cards, I have put each character in fighting position, and yes, Grum at first glance did not look very aggressive.

-Step 2:

In a new layer under the sketch, I started the coloring of the illustration, for this I used somewhat muted colors, since I wanted the battle to take place in a sunset, so I was still hesitating about what tone I should use. I also immediately started to correct Grum's head, because the one in the sketch did not honor this warrior and it was too big.

-Step 3:

Here began my fight with the sky and the environment, because as I said before, I wanted the fight to take place in a sunset, but I didn't want the scenery to steal protagonism from the fighters, so I darkened the sky and added dust clouds on the ground to avoid drawing Grum's feet and also to generate some depth and distance between the soldier and the warrior.

-Step 4:

The fights at night look spectacular, but you have to know how to manage the color temperature, and in this case I had to "cool" the warm colors of each character, bringing Grum's green to blue and Serpentine's red to magenta.

Battle Fanart

-Step 5:

And now it's time to generate highlights in the illumination, for this I have used the fusion modes "overlay", "soft light", "screen" and "color dodge", also I have offset a little the color channels to have a minimum glitch effect which is combined with the motion blur of the tail of the soldier.

I also made Grum's eyes completely white to match the soldier's eyes and make them more aggressive, so you can really notice that they are going to have a legendary fight.

Battle Fanart

I will leave you a GIF with the whole process on it, so you can better appreciate the illustration process.