Lira The Dark | My Entry for Splinterlands Art Contest

Splinterlands Art Contest

Hello guys, I'm back from the dead XD. I know I skipped the contest for the last two weeks. This wasn't supposed to happen because I already have some artwork in the queue just in case if I get lazy one day. But that was not the case this time because my eyes suddenly got blurry after using my buddy's pc for a while. Something like this happened last year and it was cleared within the day but this time it didn't so I took some days off to regain my vision back and I can say it's much better now but this time I think I need to upgrade my glass power sadly. This was pretty obvious since I'm a digital artist and I have no intention to leave this field haha.

Anyway, for this week I decided to make an official character artwork. It's been a while since I made an official one so I chose Lira the dark to be my artwork. I made some changes to it if you compare it with the official design to make her more suited for my style.

Lira The Dark

Official Design

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Yeah, purple is not really my favourite colour but I made it work somehow. This is my second design of lira because the first one with the hoodie on her head was not really working for me. I didn't want to hide her beautiful hair like that so I excluded it from my artwork. I consider hair an integral part of my paintings. It really brings out the beauty in a character. Although I did have some trouble painting purple hair XD. My old method didn't work on this one so I had to experiment a lot with it again.

Process

I made this artwork very slowly, only spending 15-30 minutes per day because of my eye condition. So I have been at it for more than a week now haha. I'm glad that I could finish it today. Yesterday I made that background, very simple and minimalist but it looks great with her colour scheme. I used pen fade brush to create that strokes by the way.

In the official design, her hand is glowing but I wanted to change that so I added that glow inside the flower but with the same purple accent colour hehe. I also made her necklace in my style because I don't like the gold colour with her skin. The steel variant looks much better if you ask me haha.

I totally forgot to paint the buckle like thing infront of her dress. I painted that after finishing the whole thing. It's a good thing that someone made lira artwork on last week's contest. When I was checking out the compilation post today I saw it there and instantly understood that I forgot to add the buckle in my painting. Things like the embroidery work on the hand sleeves were removed because it looks off on my variant when I added it. I wanted to draw the earnings but the hair was gonna hide it anyway so skipped that as well. I think I already added too much stuff in there so it's gonna look bad if I keep adding more so I decided to stop there and refined the artwork in the meantime.

The light source I choose this time was a generic one, it was from the top so I was a bit worried about the final output but it turned out well. That's about it guys I hope I don't skip the next one. I'll try my best not to haha.

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Tools used

• Ibis paint X
• Notebook
• Pencil

Duration: less than 8hrs

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Thank you so much for your time :)