Splinterlands Social Media Challenge! | Spineback Wolf

Hello! 🥳

Today was a nice day to sit in front of my laptop and draw. What more with nice music, right? 😁 It was gloomy and breezy and so, I feel like playing mellow background music while I draw. Sometimes, it affects what I am working on. I believe that art is what the artist is thinking at that moment.

I just want to share what I stumbled to in the internet.

I came across a painting entitled Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. The painting is about violence and bloodshed. I got intrigue because it is one of the saddest painting I have seen.

Anyway~ that is just a little bit of an update. 😁

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For this week, I chose Spineback Wolf.

I have never seen a real wolf in my life. Here where I live, tropical weather is not suitable for these furry creatures. I only see them in pictures and videos online. I just know that they are bigger than dogs. It reminds me of the dire wolves from the series Game of Thrones. A very memorable scene for me is when they found the pups in the forest. It was a bittersweet moment because the mother of the pup was found dead.

Source

Art process

Now let's turn this fearsome wolf into a chibi cute version. 🥳 Starting with a blue soft brush, I referred to this picture for an aid. I like the fur to be spiky so, I drew pointy edges, especially on the neck part. For the lineart, I chose a solid hard pencil.

The black fur has a little tone of cyan blue. It is not that visible but the moment I color-picked the color for the original card, the hue that I am getting from the color wheel is blue. Same as the inner part of the ears and white fur, they were color-picked from the original chard. Here, I already added the eyes and nose. The horns around the body are three layers clipped to the base color yellow.

Adding more shine to the fur. I just put them on the edges. Assuming that the light source is from the left, I put a darker shade of blue on the right side. I used g-pen to create that spiky hair. Another layer on top of everything, I drew lines outside the base color for added spiky hair.

Final art

For the background, I just put all the layers into one folder. I copy that folder and then merge all the layers. I make the layer bigger and position it at the back. I lowered the opacity to 20 percent.

~tadaaa finished art! 🥳 It looks like a Pokemon 😆

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Software: Clip Studio Paint Pro

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