Slothicorn Crypto Chart Art Contest: Art whale!

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 🎣:

This work is an entry for a Hive account@slothicorn awesome contest, in which the main goal is making a creative interpretation of the crypto currency chart (in this case, I choose Steem). The main goal is to educate people about cryptos with art (by making them popular) and also, blow our minds trying to figure how to work with it in the most creative way. You can find the main contest post in their fabulous account, in case you want to participate. They have good prices, good entries, and good vibes. The deadline is June 15th, 2018.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 🎣:

𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔:

• A pencil
• My trusy markers (01 and 0.2) and colored markers with a thin tip.
• A sheet.
• Colored Pencils.
• Colored pens.
• A laptop with Adobe Photoshop Cs6
• lots of patience, love and digital glitter.

The eternal first step, the sketch. I had an idea of how I was going to use the crypto chart pic, so I drew it upside down.
Then, I started my line shading journey, using more lines in the top (closer to his nose), since narwhals have dark heads.
With the lines done, it needed a bit of color. I made colorful lines with the colored pen and markers.

Almost done! now, all we need is some colored pencils action. Just some shadings its all we need, making it a bit more intense in some parts.
Once I had the narwhale complete, I had to make 4 friends for him, doing exactly the same but using different lines.

The last step was shading it all with a black colored pencil, and all ready for the scan! I had to do the same with the fishes.

So, after I finished the drawing...

A single picture after the process.	Scan version.

	Now, starts the madness. I used the whole space of the sheet to make all the figures, instead making a full composition. I tried to make the drawing as brigth as I could, and after asking for advices and consulting the trusty DIY book of youtube, I opened Adobe Photoshop CS6 to see if I could make it. And, after almost spending a whole day...

OMG! It was easier than what I thought, After knowing the proper tools of course. I know… for some of you, photoshop it’s a piece of bread, but this was my first time using it and I got really excited to lose the fear of digital art.

The steem chart I used	The background.	The steemit logo.

🐳I cropped the pieces using the magnetic whip, and then made each one a different layer. I had to use the T tool to reduce sizes and locate everything in place, and also adit the chart pic to make it fit with the background, adding a bit of outer shine.

🐳 After that, I painted the contour of the narwhal using 3 different brushes (it had to look like the main figure of the drawing, holding the visible chart on its mouth).

🐳Since the narwhal and the background were different layers, I painted the background layer directly (then I realized that creating a new transparent layer and painting there would be better but welp…).

🐳I copied some more fishies, edited then by blurring a bit, and I was done!