I've been following the Hive HoloZing developments since the game was first announced here on Hive. To be honest, I'm not sure if I'll be playing it, likely not (mostly due to time) but that doesn't keep me from delegating or from using it as inspiration for some fan art.
Here is the finished piece - read on if you want to know a little more about it.
Unlike most of my other digital art pieces which I draw in Procreate I started this one in Adobe Fresco. Why? No idea, just because I guess.
But just like most of my pieces I started with a pencil sketch. This here is the (almost) final pencil sketch. In the gif below you will see the whole, sometimes embarrassing process (unbelievable how much I noodled with her left arm...).
Here is a crop of the Staff of Aesculapius or Rod of Asclepius which I thought would be a fun accessory for a healer. I googled pictures of it and then sketched it out before placing it in her hand.
At the end of the below gif you see that I also painted the colors in Fresco because I intended to make this a 'realistic' painting. However, I have been doing quite a bit of vector art lately and since the original Holozing game is more of a manga/anime style I decided to stick with that style, clean lines and separation of colors and practice cel shading.
OMG do I suck with cel shading! I know to most people cel shading looks like the easy way to give a painting dimension but to me - I find it hard to decide just how much to shade or highlight without overdoing it. And, of course, you have to get it into the right spot but that is no different from regular shading.
Anyhow, I did it and I am okay with outcome.
Here is the gif of the process in Fresco.
Did you notice that I gave the water healer a kind of coat that was flapping in the wind in the sketch? This would have looked cool but a long coat in the water seemed extremely impractical so I didn't draw it in the end.
I also didn't end up adding the Holo and Zing to the healer but that was more a case of I wanted to be done!
Anyhow, after Fresco I imported the image into Affinity Designer and started vectorizing everything and, well, that's a whole different process with no video capture.
Here is a screenshot showing just a fraction of all the layers used in this image.
And with that - I'm out of here. Till next time!
Have a great rest of your day!
Cheers,
(Ocean)Bee
