Greetings community!
It's been a long time since I've done portraits for @Splinterlands art contest and recently I saw a new card that I loved, although it has many details that could stand out much more in a full body drawing, I wanted to capture the essence of this character in a portrait, creating a rather rustic face and with a malevolent expression, the only bad thing about this whole thing is that it cost me a lot to identify well the shape of the costume, I really don't understand how is the upper part so I decided to improvise and change it in my way, I liked the portrait because it has a strong aspect, but surely in another week in the future I dare to make this same card in a full body version, because I feel that I was not completely satisfied, I love the colors that this drawing has and I tried to make them as similar as possible in my version, I hope you like it.
I will tell you a little about the process, it was something I suffered a lot, normally portraits are my forte but this time I was using a very different color palette than the one I usually use for skin, I made my sketch in which I tried to make quite strong features, I chose the colors to work with, which were lilac and purple tones, I started to fill in the face and I saw that it was looking horrible, but I continued filling it in hoping to trust the process, previously I have painted skin with purple tones but this range I chose were lighter and I saw it very weird, in a new layer I started to mix all these colors until I created a soft skin, I painted the eyes in black with red and added illuminations in the edge of the face, I continued painting the hair with blue.
I filled the clothes with a light brown tone and painted the red marks on the face, then I started to shape the hair painting it similar to the original card, by this point I liked the skin because it looked much better than at the beginning, but it took me a lot to work that skin until I saw a good result, I finished the suit and painted the background, for the background I wanted to add these purple lines that refer to her wings, finally I made an adjustment of color and detail but some areas of the face, I finished adding lighting that would highlight some parts.</div
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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