Nothing is as difficult for me as bringing my imagination to life, and putting it out on the screen or paper. It's one thing for me to have some cool imaginations, it's another thing to put them out for others to see and feel what I feel.
I have had some cool art imaginations but I never for once sketch them out to look like what I had in my head or my mind.

The same goes for when I found this splinterland art contest a few years ago. I always had it at the back of my mind but never get to join in the contest because of my inability to sketch out most of the things I would have wanted and loved to sketch.
I decided to give it a try this one time and see what I could display on my screen.
I knew it was gonna be difficult for me to pick up my stylus pen and start sketching out my imagination on my screen, so I first made use of my drawing book and pencil to see what I could come up with. The idea was to make an alien character though I couldn't picture any alien in my mind. The only thing that kept coming to my mind was an eyed alien with an antenna so I immediately sketched this out on paper to see the outlook. I had no idea what the body would look like or how it would be so I just decided to give it to this muscular body structure.

I also had no idea what this was gonna look like on software, but I still sketched it anyway. I thought of adding or subtracting when I sketch it out digitally but it turned out I didn't do much of the adding or subtracting, rather I only adjusted its muscles and chest region, same with the arms and thighs.

I contemplated the color to use for my alien to fit it better. I chose red at first, it wasn't so nice so I changed it to purple and finally to blue. I kept switching between colors to find the right fit and then I adjusted the brightness and darkness of the color to see which fitted better. I then settled for this. I started painting and adding up the colors, blurring some edges and areas, and smudging some areas too.
And then I added the necessary layers to complete my alien sketch.
And finally, I worked on the background. I used about three to four different background layers to get the desired background I wanted and then settled with what you are seeing.
I have most of my process and steps below.

Work Process

             2nd September 2022
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                 Friday