Hi hi everybody, today I'll show you my first delivery of 12 illustrations set of the mythpunk novel, Ragnarok Conspiracy written by Hive account@pibara. This is the project which I'm currently working in cooperation with Hive account@pibara for a couple of months now when I won his contest which he made me a work proposal to illustrate his novel. I had to read the story, choose which chapters I would illustrate and make the sketches to be approved by the author. Today I introduce you Bjarne, an university professor with many secrets who appears in the chapter 13.

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Here you can see the end result of his contest some months ago:
https://steemit.com/contest/@pibara/illustration-contest-congratulations-marylucy

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Step by step

This was the sketch approved by Pibara, using Jan Malmsjö as main reference as the reference models post made by him at my request:
https://steemit.com/fiction/@pibara/ragnarok-conspiracy-casting-reference-models-for-marylucy-to-work-with

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Started to paint his face to do the hardest (in my opinion) first, because colour old man skin take a lot of time if you use a realistic style. The process was too long but worth the hard work :3.

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Then I put bases colours on their clothes to divide canvas.

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Before start to detail clothes, I wanted to colour the background to "relax" a bit before I work hard on their suits.

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I corrected position of his hand and added bases colours. Bjarne's suit is almost ready in this step.

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And ready!
I detailed their stylish clothes and then add final lights details that I always do. Also correct the tablet for realism and the other things on the table too ^^.

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This experience has been very fruitful to my artistic development and I hope I've shaped that Pibara wrote. It was make an old character with many details on his skin, it was a great challenge.

Thanks for see this post and your support, you know the next will be new content in Spanish and you can see Bjarne in my instagram too ^^. So, see you guys :P. I hope you visit Hive account@pibara's account and read his awesome story which is available in English (and Spanish version soonI hope).