A great wave rose from the distance and brought with it something without form. Then, the silhouette of a woman was shown before my eyes, she looked like a goddess; the tide was rising violently, I thought it would cover me; but from one moment to another there were no more waves, neither a woman inside them.

Who was the woman in the wave and where was she?

But then I saw a person floating near the shore, when I saw her face I thought I was freaking out as there was just a big black hole there.

It was the first strange thing I had ever seen in my life, although something told me that this was the beginning, the beginning of something bigger. From that day on our world changed, they came to change everything.

Details

Name :	The Initial Wave
Marketplace:	Terra Virtua
Pieces :	3/3
Direct Link :	https://terravirtua.io/item/HADART4100001

Tools:

Gaomon S620
Photoshop
Brushes courtesy of Imad Awan: Download here

-Step 1:

I have long wanted to draw water, to make a series of illustrations based on that theme, and now the time has come, no face with water, that is the premise of this collection.

-Step 2:

Under the layer of the sketch, I established the base colors of the art, using desaturated tones and not very striking initially but denoting the areas where the light would take center stage.

-Step 3:

Going into details, I added more fluidity to the water and much more contrast in the girl's skin, to highlight the colors that shine on it, giving the sensation that the skin is wet. I achieved this with a brush that manages to capture pores in the skin and always accompanied by a layer mask to erase the excess of this effect.

-Step 4:

The small cameras in the background I always imagined them as the heads of the Rovers that are sent to Mars, to give an alien aura to the scene, so I looked for references of these machines, so the main camera is from the Perseverance and the smaller one from the Curiosity.

-Step 5:

And of course I couldn't miss the eye and the sunflower, this is the most alien of the scene, so I had to take a close up, so I applied a gaussian blur filter to take the focus off the floating cameras, plus I added a sepia filter to match the color with the other two illustrations of this collection.

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