I want to share you my second participation in the @Splinterlands Art Contest, I was going to post it the week before last but I realized late that the theme was changed and then last week I had trouble posting it so I saved it for this one to see.

I started the sketch of the idea in Photoshop but then I switched to Clip Studio because they had told me about it recently and I wanted to try it, like most drawing programs keeping the interface very similar, it was something simple, but I was still learning while drawing, this is a specialized program to illustrate so you have many options. As for the sketch, it came out easy.

This time I wanted to do the Scavo Chemist card because I wanted to do something different from what I did in my previous participation, something more cute and very different from the portraits I usually do, in the original card the character is thinner but I wanted it chubbier and fluffier to give a more cuddly look, I think a thinner look would be more anthropomorphic and it wasn't what I was going for. The rest of its characteristics such as clothing and accessories I kept them similar. As you can see, I was also practicing this coloring technique I have seen several artists here and on YouTube do it, which consists of drawing the entire shape of the character in shades of gray, from the details to lights and shadows, this allows you to focus a lot on the shape and leave the colors for later, I had to watch a couple of videos to get started, in theory it sounded relatively simple but in practice it was somewhat more complicated, especially since I was still getting acquainted with the options of this new program.

For this card I was very inspired by the LoL race called Yordle, which are small beings with characteristics of some animal and anthropomorphic, especially Ziggs and Heimerdinger. And with photos of real moles, which look very fluffy, in terms of composition I was inspired by the lore of the card right at the end of the story, I found this super advanced race of moles very interesting. And the detail that moles have small eyes that can hardly be seen (and they are almost blind), I thought it was great that they had those technological lenses that in my imagination are like a kind of lens that absorbs a lot of light so they can see .

To finish I added more details and lights to add more realism to the textures, I like this somewhat realistic style. I wanted to make a background that consisted of his laboratory inside a cave, very much in the style of a mole and with many chemicals and colored substances as they say in the lore of the card, but I left it there and I wanted not to stress with the background, basically ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶.

This is how it was finally left with all its details, and a basic gradient background. I really enjoyed making this character, quite funny with that intellectual aura, cute but a bit malevolent. It was a lot of fun doing it and the result was quite what I was looking for, as for the coloring technique I have to experiment more with it, it has its pros and cons like everything else, it allows you to focus a lot on making the shapes very detailed but at the moment of coloring you should try different colors and types of layers so that the color does not look grayish. It is a matter of experimenting.

I hope you've enjoyed this post and thanks for watching! Tell me on the comments your opinion ^^.