Week 254 | My Splinterlands Art Contest Entry | Vera Salacia

Hello! 🥰

Thank God it's Friday! 🥳
For this week, I chose Vera Salacia! 💦 A very popular card. 😁 I was about to go with a dragon card and turned it into a semi-humanoid, but I think this card really caught my attention. It is nice that we can experiment with the cards. That way, we have more room to be creative.

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Art Process

For me, this is a complicated pose 😅 I am not used to drawing a full body, but I said to maself, I have to! Practice and practice until I get comfortable. Good tutorial videos and a book I bought are a great help too. I find interesting and complicated poses usually on models. I used a red pen for the hair and the clothing. I had many tries doing the hair. 😅 The lineart is a breeze since the sketch is easy to follow.

I changed the clothing a little bit. Instead of a crop top and skirt, I did a body suit. The sleeves and the boots are the same. For the base color, I pick the shades with the same saturation. After coloring, I added another layer for the shadow of the skin. At this stage, I also did the eyes. I always go for the 3/4 head position these days. 😁

I separated the layers of shadowing of the clothing, hair, and skin. I imagine the bodysuit is kind of latex texture. It was hard doing the shadowing and lighting for the clothing, not gonna lie there. 🤣 I added shine to the metal part of the clothing and skin.

More shine to the hair, gloves, clothing, and boots. I chose a dark shade of blue for the background. I added another layer for the shadow and set the opacity to 15 percent. I used a special brush for the water swirls. I blur out those at the back.

Final Art

Added more water splashed in front and blur them. Added some small circles all around. I adjusted some parts of the body, especially the eye using liquify. Add noise monochrome and set it to 10 percent opacity.

Finished art!! 🥰 I enjoyed doing this art.

Thanks for reading~ 💖

Software: Clip Studio Paint Pro

That is it for this art blog. I will see you at the next one!
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