Splinterlands Art Contest Week 277: Ifrit Rising

This is my entry for the weekly Splinterlands Art Contest found HERE

From the Splinterlands Wiki: https://splinterlands.fandom.com/wiki/Ifrit_Rising

Ifrit Rising considers himself a demi-god. Huge in size and powerful in fire magic, he travels through underground rivers of magma and emerges from within volcanoes around the lands. In his display of strength and ferocity, anyone near him when he emerges either runs in fright, becomes his meal, or worships him as a god. And he is just fine with any of those options.

For Ifrit Rising knows he is superior to all other beings. He is able to harness fire magic to his command, and is just as deadly in melee as he is at range. He is currently resting deep underneath the Mountain of Ash on Praetoria.

And word has reached his ears that the Chaos Legion intends to enter through his domain and conquer the Splinterlands. Ifrit Rising sees this as another opportunity to have more mortals worship him, and claim more dominion for himself. So he is happy to help the Chaos Legion in any of their endeavors.

Created in Clip Studio Paint Pro on a Surface Pro 4. Here is the time lapse video:

And here is the drawing broken down into individual process steps:

One: Rough Draft.

Two: Line art.

Three: Main flat layer.

Four: Separate clipped flat layers for horns, leather, and bronze.

Five: Shading, create a multiply layer on top of all the flat layers and airbrush a bunch of black in.

Six: Highlights. I use two layers, an Overlay layer for large areas of reflected light, and an Add Glow layer for the really bright reflections off of metal and glowing bits like for the eyes.

Six and a half: Use Nightcafe AI Art generator to make a volcano. Here is the image it gave me:

Seven: Paste the volcano into the background layer, zoom in to a small section of it. Also ran it through a gaussian blur to make it a bit indistinct. Also added some glowing bits.

Eight: Not done yet, need to sign my initials.