Splinterlands Baby Unicorn Fan Art

Second art post! This time I made some fan art of the Spinterlands Baby Unicorn 🦄 in a grassy meadow under a starry sky on a misty moonless night.

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And now, for the process! I drew this on my iPad Gen 8 using Apple Pencil Gen 1 and Procreate. My first step is to get my reference pictures.

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The first reference is of course the Baby Unicorn Splinterlands card art. Then I found a very cute photo of a foal on Unsplash, taken by Soledad Lorieto in San Ramon, Uruguay. You can see the full resolution photograph here:
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First, I did a rough sketch of the foal based on the photograph:
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If you are wondering why the strange background colour, it just makes it a little easier to see as opposed to a stark white background. I usually do my sketches in red or some other colour, so that it is easier to see the sketch when I am doing the line art in black, and not confuse the two.

Now a normal foal or baby horse does not have much of a tail or mane, but I decided, this is a baby unicorn, so it could be a little more luscious.

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Now it's time to do the line art!

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Next step is, of course, adding the flat colours. I didn't use the exact colour pallet from the original art as I wanted it to be a little softer.

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Once the flat colours are down, it's time to add the shading! The shading here had to be a lot more subtle because of the subtle colouring of the baby unicorn. I wanted to keep a 'silvery feeling'.

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I did not really have anything in mind for the background so I just started playing around. When I added the magic around the Baby Unicorn's horn, I suddenly thought how cool it would look to see that magic if you were taking a walk at night. And so the grassy meadow and night sky came to be!

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The next step I took was to add some more details, a few flowers, some stars... and then, just to add to the mystical atmosphere, some mist.

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Then I began playing with the overall colour, adding more dark and blue, to give the final result. And highlighting the glow from the magic.

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To be honest, this definitely does not feel like my best work by any stretch, and I don't really like this one very much. But, every piece of completed artwork is a step on a learning journey. And I would like to document how my art evolves. This includes posting the art I would otherwise have deleted and forgotten about! 🤣

I am going to be entering this into the Spinterlands Art Contest Week 188

Please feel free to critique, but I ask that you do so in a kind manner, as I have been feeling pretty fragile of late.

Thank you for stopping by and having a look at my post. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. 🌻



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Job well done Sam, very clean artwork.
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