Splinterlands art contest | IZA THE FANGED
Hi guys! I hope you had a relaxing weekend, for my part I've been drawing my entry for the @Splinterlands contest this week, it's getting harder and harder as I want to make cards that I haven't drawn before starting to repeat with characters I've done, so it's been a difficult search as most of the things left to do don't really suit my style, however, I promise that soon I will try to do something completely different and new, for now I chose the card of IZA THE FANGED, the truth is that I'm not very good at painting very open mouths so I decided to leave her with her mouth closed, I wanted to make her with her mouth open to highlight the fangs and the snake tongue, but I decided to give her another approach, my idea was a portrait that had a very penetrating look with a delicate smile and a snake that rests on her shoulders, I chose to do it portrait style because it's been a long time since I did this for splinterlands and I love to make faces, anyway, I tried to simulate very well the hair and the colors to make it look quite similar to the original card, I hope you like it.
I made my sketch without many details, this time for the colors I chose quite pale skin tones and started to fill the face making the shadows and lights without much detail, in a new layer I added more shades to the face to give it a better shape and then I blurred these colors to create a smoother skin, I had painted the eyes in yellow but I realized that it was a very bright yellow and it didn't look good, I decided to paint them in dark brown and then give the highlights with yellow, so it looked more natural.
I painted the clothes with a dark blue and the silhouette of the snake with a green tone, creating a clipping mask I started to fill the snake using different shades of greens and yellows to create the whole body of the snake, I added the tufts of white hair and started to worry about the background, but since it is a portrait I decided to make a simple background for which I placed a dark green base and then experimented with some brushes looking for one with a texture that I liked, after I found it, I painted with light green.
The background was too bright and my character was too light, so I decided to make a layer over the character with the blend mode "multiply" and a dark green color, I lowered the opacity and the drawing got darker in a way that made everything look more harmonious at least for my taste.
To continue I added many highlights in the face giving it a little more life, I also fixed one of the eyes that for me looked very strange compared to the other lol, I thought of merging part of the background with the silhouette of her, so I used the oil texture brush to make some brushstrokes to give this effect, finally I applied some adjustments of color, saturation and exposure.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
Foundation: alexa-artx
Rarible : alexaart
KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
Opensea: alexa-art
Makersplace: alexaartx
Ghostmarket : alexa
NFT Showroom: alexa.art
Twitter: Alexa_Ys
As always, beautiful artwork. 😍😍❤️❤️
Thank you! 😀
You are welcome my friend :)
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Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859
Thanks!!
Awesome illustration!! I enjoyed a lot the process!! I love how you created the face and every detail on it!
Thank you so much 😃