Splinterlands art contest week #244 (Queen of crows)

This week for my Splinterlands art contest entry i drew Queen of Crows .

First step i always sketch in my free time and i look up SplinterlandsCards.com for refrence and try drawing the characters in my style. I loved her Character design tbh Who wouldn't love a empowering Girl Baddie villain. So i began by sketching then digitally converting it into a refined line art ( i use Medibang paint pro App) that's the first step .

Next i start filling in flat colors Everything needs to be colored on a different layer so i paint the Skin, hair , dress all different layers after that i add shadows to each layer with a water color wet brush guassian blur it and then i highlights everything too set the layer to add in layer blending mode so it pops out . Now u have to see how the light will fall on the character what parts of our face are highlighted always and what parts are a bit darker .Same goes for the dress the folds n curves will be darker while the part where light hits will be highlighted .
After that i shaded her hair and added highlights to them using the same technique how ever the hair need more like pointy highlights so i used a smudge brush to make it look like hair .

after that i shaded her golden accents and accessories plus the crows and added a dark blue gradient background. To her . I had saved the whole character n crows as a png transparent i filled them with a bright purple color n set the mode to add so now my character had a bright purple glow coming from her .

After that i add some more details to her eyes the dress . Colored the lineart and this is the final result

I can seriously see a huge difference in my drawings from the first Splinterlands art entry till now and thats how it is This Contest is a great great thing for artist who wanna draw out of their comfort zone and practice .

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