Splinterlands Art Contest

It's another week and opportunity to be a part of the contest. Even though I haven't won anything yet I am sure I will win soon. Big congratulations to last week's winners- top notch creativity. Y'all are giving us a run for our money.
So this week I decided to try something different. Perhaps I'll get as much attention as I wish I could

I call this piece "Hell's kiss".
I went out of my comfort zone here and took my two favourite Flame characters. I knew I wanted them in a dramatic pose and that's how I landed on the "Hell's kiss" piece.

What if they were in a romantic relationship?

Process
1-As always I start with a rough sketch, I knew I wanted a dramatic pose so I came up with the hell's kiss pose. Basically just them in pre kiss pose. Once the rough sketch is in I move on to the line art. Not much detail on the line art because I wanted this piece to be mostly painted.

2- And then I put in the flat colours,using the line art as an outline I lay in the colours. On a separate layer under the lineart.

3- With the colours in, next I move on to rendering. Here I paint in some dark colours of red and orange and use blur brush tool and render it, giving the piece more volume. I do this until I'm satisfied with enough to add in lighter paint ins

4- Next I paint in light red and orange colours, adding more depth to the piece, I also render this with the blur brush as well. The lighter colours act like the lights from the surrounding bouncing off their body. Here I also do a little rendering on Idrii's hair, I wanted her hair to look like a flowing glowing flam hair.

5- Next I paint in more details like the gold bands on both Bsle and Idrii and the gold details on idrii's dress. I also paint in the fiery flames on Bale's head. I add some more lighter rendering and render till I'm okay with how it looks

6- almost finished with the piece I add in some rim lighting. Rim lights are the lights that reflect on the edge of the body, I use an off white color for this and with enough rim lighting I then move on to paint in the background.
I colour a gradient of dark red and black for the background. Next I paint surrounding fire, giving this intense dramatic feel to the piece, The "Hell's Kiss". I paint in some more flames and fire crackles. Once all that is done our piece is finally complete and ready.

Hell's kiss.jpg

This piece took roughly 18 hours to work on.
I used both the Medibang and Krita software to work on this. I used Medibang for the sketch, line art and flat colours and finished it off on Krita

Hell's Kiss -Splinterlands Art Contest

Splinterlands Art Contest