The 43 year old, Chadwick Boseman who played the iconic role of King T'challa in the MCU movie "Blank Panther" has died on 28th day of August year 2020. According to a statement posted from his Twitter account, he fought colon cancer since 2016 and died at home with his family and wife by his side. He played a lot roles in the industry and made more while having his surgery and chemotherapy. This unfortunate turn of events made a lot of people left in shock and letting out an audible mourning gasp.

Personally, I really love him specially when he portrayed the character of MCU's "Black Panther" and it made my heart sunk so deep when I heard his tragic passing. Chadwick as the iconic King T'challa will never be forgotten by his MCU fans because it has been a global icon and a new paradigm as a brilliant, amazing and exemplar leader. With this going, I would like to pay a tribute by creating a digital art tutorial of Chadwick Boseman, Our King Of Wakanda, King T'challa also known as "Black Panther", a friend, a son and a great father.

Software

MediBang Paint is a FREE digital painting and comic creation software. It's available for Android phones in Google play store.Even though it's free it comes loaded with features. MediBang Paint includes everything you need to illustrate or make comics.

They also have various brushes for you to use like the GPen, pencil and more for inking, and the Watercolor brush for coloring. Each brush has various settings so they can be customized to your liking.

Process

I am reminiscing some moments of King T'challa in the movies Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame while I am making this whole phone digital art. I still can't believe that his gone because everyone was so excited to see the next MCU movie which includes him and now he has died. Not only for five years but forever. He's gone and no one can snap him back like Tony Stark "Iron Man" did in the movie because this is the real world.

I started to pick a reference photo from instagram. I find it comfortable to have a basis in my art since I'm not good in drawing an image from my imagination. I also wanted to give it a little tweak in terms of what he wears. I'm thinking about changing it to color black or even turn it into black panther costume.

Second, open the medibang app and add a layer to be specific a color layer. When its already added, select the paint tool and choose "pencil" and set the opacity to 100%. You can choose whatever color you like but just like in my first ever phone digital art tutorial I prefer violet. My first layer is the outline of my illustration. I really find this helpful to me because this will serve as my guide when I start to color my Black Panther drawing. Black Panther has been a strong symbol of a bold, strong and amazing leader. If you have watched the movie it is really clear that he is a moral king and wants to protect his fellow Wakandans. Moreover, he taught us the need in supporting to improve ourselves. Each day we have to try harder even if there are people who hate us, degrade us and turn their backs. He clearly emphasize the concept of self-improvement and the care for his fellow men. Pertaining back to digital art, when I finished my outline, I add another color layer for coloring. Make sure to click this layer before coloring because you might be coloring the first layer. It's actually fine to color the first one but I prefer to add another one. I just want to have a separate layer so that if I want to erase the color I won't include my outline. I want it to give a little cartoony yet realistic kind of vibe so I decided the colors will have a very visible difference which means that the color mixing won't be as clean as the reference photo. I started coloring the face and an ear. So far I really find it a bit easier compared to my first attempt of phone digital art since I don't mix the colors that much. Then, I started working on the hair. At first I thought that I will have a hard time coloring his hair but on the second thought its pretty much easy actually since I only applied a solid black pigment. But of course, I will try to give it some curly hair strand on the outer part later. I moved on to his cloth. I changed the color of his apparel compared to my reference photo into black making a big brush strokes since I really want it to give a vibe of Black Panther. When I was doing this, I still can't believe that he has died. He was only 43 years old. I know that there are younger people who die everyday. And I also know that we are going to die soon. But it's sad to think that life is so short and it'll be over before we know it. I started to paint his beard and mustache. This is the most challenging and time consuming part of this whole portrait because I have to form the beard and mustache one by one so that it will give you a little realistic vibe and to leave some little white space. I also started to make some strands of his thick and bushy eyebrows.

I continue making his dark lips and his black costume. I was a bit indecisive of what will be the exact color of his lips and later on I decided to pick a color close to his skin tone. And then, I made his iconic sharp necklace and add some little gray details in his costume. We are almost done and I realized that I forgot to create his right ear so I immediately painted it.

For the final step, I add a gray plain background to compliment the entire look. Viola! This is Chadwick Boseman as King T'challa of Wakanda. Rest in peace Our King. He will always remain in our hearts. He will never be forgotten.

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