Splinterlands art contest | Epona
Hello people, happy evening to all.
Today I have finished with a work that took me a long time but I just freaking love it!! this drawing is my entry for the @Splinterlands art contest this week for which I chose Epona's card, a card that I wanted to draw for a while but I was afraid to do it because I don't draw animals very often and it really cost me a lot to make this horse, but to make my work a little less difficult I decided to use this painting technique that allows me to paint a little more freely, without being perfect but giving a very artistic shape and finish to the whole drawing, I wanted to represent this card in a rustic and rough way, a look that I really like to do lately is with this frown expression, changing a little the atmosphere of the original card where we see two characters that look quite adorable, to paint I used 3 brushes, a difuse brush, one with oil texture and finally a chalk texture brush, which helped me a lot to give this effect as if everything was faded or painting with oil on canvas, I hope you like this version as much as I liked it.
I had this idea in mind to make a portrait, but I still hadn't chosen which card to work with, I saw Epona's card and decided to take the risk finally after running away from her for a couple of months lol, I made two sketches that I discarded until I was left with this one, although I wasn't completely convinced I just decided to trust the process, I chose the colors to work with for the skin, which were of different shades including olive green, cream, pinks, browns, in a new layer I added more colors to give more shape to the face, I placed the base color on the horse and on the dress using for the dress a green tone and for the hair a grayish brown.
I mixed all the tones that I had placed on the skin to give it a better finish but leaving some texture so that the whole drawing had that oil painting effect, I also painted the folds of the dress adding light and dark greens.
I started to give details to the dress by placing these gold ornaments on the edge, to paint the hair I placed a light brown as a base, followed by a blonde yellow, with the diffuse brush I started to shape the horse, applying shadows and highlights.
With the chalk brush I started to paint better the hair adding strands of different tones, for the background I used the diffuse brush and added a variety of colors that would give a different contrast to the whole drawing.
Now I mixed the colors that I put in the background with the chalk brush and also with the oil brush to give it that finish that makes it look like real paint, then I gave more details to the horse with more shadows and lights, using a combination of the 3 brushes that I was using, I finished the horse's skin and hair, now I started to give brushstrokes in all the edges of the drawing, in the edge of the dress, hair, horse, skin, etc. creating this way even more that effect of fading, to finish I gave an editing touch to the drawing to give it a finish with more depth and more colorful.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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Ohhhh! que maravillosa, realmente admiro todas tus obras y calidad artistica, es siempre sorprendente y hermosa. El estilo rustico, rasposo y difuso es realmente dificil, yo he tratado de tocar esos limites, a penas y soy una aprendiz, tus obras quedan tan perfectas que son dignas de imprimirlas y lucirlas en cuadros. Esta en especial es una de mis favoritas, por el caballo.
Ya de por si, dibujar un animal tiene una dificultad elevada. Pero tu le das vida, lo haces parecer fácil pero aquel que pinta sabe que no, sabe que es un don, sabe que es tiempo y dedicación.
Recrear la referencia de la carta a tu estilo, supera siempre la versión, lo llevas más allá y hasta desearía, se tomara en consideración para un personaje más.
Bello, muy bello Alexa.
Aww muchísimas gracias por tus palabras 💕💕 de verdad me alegra mucho, este estilo créeme que parece difícil pero es bastante relajante, prácticamente es dar brochazos a lo loco pero a la vez dándole forma a las cosas 🤣 la primera vez que lo hice tenía mucho miedo pero quedó bastante bien, ahora que ya tengo práctica es muy muy sencillo, sigue practicando para que veas solo déjate llevar y saldrá ☺️ saludos y un abrazo ❤️❤️
Esta precioso Alexa!
Me encanta mucho este estilo pictórico, y tus personajes son totalmente preciosos, el efecto donde el cabello se une al paisaje esta muy bonito, felicidades por el gran trabajo! Mucho éxito en esta ronda!
Muchas gracias @yetsimar 🥰 tenia mucho miedo de que el cabello quedara mal por suerte todo salio bien, gracias por tus palabras 🤗
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I really love this card, you did an amazing job here. The colours are really mild and well blended, welldone
Thanks alot @leeendah 🤗 i'm glad you like it
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Esta demasiado increíble!! Me gusto mucho como unificaste el fondo totalmente con el personaje, saludos 😄
Muchas gracias @mario02 🥰
Realmente es un trabajo precioso, por favor no se atemorice de hacer más trabajos tan buenos como este. Si usted lo hace, nos está privando de creaciones tan agradables.
Mis mejores deseos para usted.
Muchas gracias!
Very impressive art style!🙌
Thank you!!
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Thank you!
Alexa: Yo diseño para Los Dioses!!
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Jajajajajaja graciaas 🤣❤❤❤
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¡Gracias!