Splinterlands art contest | MEDUSA
Greetings Alien community! Today I am presenting my entry for this week for @Splinterlands and I must confess that this has been the most difficult character I have had to represent so far, I really wanted to take this challenge but I was quite destroyed after spending a whole day trying to draw this version of Medusa, it's been a long time since I painted snakes and this was the most complicated part of all, I thought of this kind of Medusa made with desaturated green tones and with its stone skin, red and powerful eyes like the original and doing the snakes with a slightly paler green, I also painted some snakes in beige tones, I wanted to keep part of her wardrobe so I drew the upper part using golden tones, I hope you like it.
I started my sketch, I had a very clear idea in my mind but really the sketch did not convince me at all, through each step I will explain some changes that I made, for the snakes I looked for several references, I really got very confused making each one but finally I made it, so once I was ready I started painting, I used a slightly desaturated color palette, I started painting the face, applying shadows and lights playing with a variety of tones, when I was finally satisfied, I started mixing these tones to create this smooth skin, fill in the silhouettes of the snakes and then start giving them more details.
I painted the necklace using golden tones to then begin to define her stone torso and some pieces that fall from it, I also painted some cracks on her face so that the stone effect was more noticeable, something that changed at this point was the shape of her mouth, I felt that it looked like a smile and I put it a little more down, in the snakes I also made some changes since there were spaces that were a bit poorly done, I started to paint the snakes placing some base colors first.
I painted each snake with the tones I wanted and gave much more detail in the shape of each one, I wanted to add the kind of crown that Medusa has but I wanted it to be a little smaller and more subtle so I drew a small chain with a red gem in the center, finally fix some details of lights and shadows to give the final result.
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
me encantó esta interpretación, las serpientes le dan mucha vida, excelente trabajo ^^
Muchas gracias 🥰
Gracias por el apoyo 💙
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This looks great! 😊
Keep it up.
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Looks really nice, kudos 👏
Te quedo preciosa 😊<3