Tenyii Striker | My entry for this week's Splinterlands Art Contest
Splinterlands Art Contest!
Hello guys, I'm back again with another blog today hehe. I had to post this today itself because I keep messing up the deadline XD. It looks like I can finally post on regular intervals after this post. I was planning this to happen for a while now and I'm glad that it finally happened. By posting Splinterlands social media challenge on Wednesday and posting contest blog on Saturday will give me enough time to work on both of them properly. So for this week I decided to draw the Samurai of Splinterlands game, Tenyii Striker. I never seen anyone draw him for this contest so I took the opportunity to draw him in my style for this week's contest. I made some minor changes on his design. I hope you guys like it hehe.
Tenyii Striker
The Process...
When I see a card which utilizes the complimentary colours or primary colours as the colour palette I jump right in and draw it haha. This character had that so I had to draw him but with some tweaks on the design of my own. Finding pose reference for this guy was the easiest thing to do because if you have been watching demon slayer anime there are tons of cool sword action scenes in it. All I had to do was to pick one that I liked the most. I choose Zenitsu's pose here because it felt right at the moment. After drawing the rough sketch I made a clean lineart on Ibis app. After that I layed down the base colours for this character and decided the direction of the source of light. I decided to add the light source from the sword itself. Next thing I did was I shaded his clothes one by one according to the direction of the source of light. If you look at the official design the armour is hidden a bit and the colour they used there is different from what I used here. I took this opportunity to change it up a bit. After making certain changes on his armour I also shaded it in respect to the source of light.
The next part was to paint the flame. I managed to paint one but later decided to go with the style which you see in the final version because later on I had plans to add a radial blur on it to show the depth hehe. The fire was painted in an Add layer. The glow and fire particles around it was painted on the same add layer. After that I duplicated the layer and applied Gaussian blur to achieve the glow effect. I also used airbrush to increase the intensity of the light. When I did this I also increased the darkness of the shade colours of his clothes to match the enchanced lighting. After I was done with the shadow colours I started painting the highlights on his body. This is best part if you ask me hehe. The highlight colour we use here truly shows the intensity of the flame. I really like yellow highlights. I decided to add highlights on the sword as well with the same colour. I used a new brush here to do that. I think it looks much better with those highlights and this is why I always pick cards with red colour in them. I did the same thing with my last art blog as well hehe. I guess you can call that as a test run.
Finally, it was time to paint the background. If you notice the wip shots I was going to post with a simple background but today I changed my mind and decided to try out some other brushes on Ibis. I made a simple forest background with the new brushes I found on Ibis. I didn't want to add more details in there because after finishing the thing I planned to add a radial blur. Although I did add some details on the grass which was near the source of light. I also made a shadow on his right side as well and after that I was done with the artwork hehe.
✨Result✨
Tools used: Ibis paint x, Notebook and Pencil
Duration: 9hrs
Pose reference
Thank you so much for your time and I will be back with a new blog next Wednesday 😊
Awesome! I wouldn't want to mess with this guy, he looks intimidating 🥴😆.
Thanks hehe. He does have that evil smile XD.
😈 You're really good at these type of characters, Solumviz! Getting better every time 😎.
I think I finally found my style. I don't have to think a lot anymore while painting in this style hehe. As for semi realism there is a long way to go for me. I'll try this style for next week.
Always appreciate your feedback Ema 🤩!
Of course 😊. Yeah! Keep going with it.
By the way, since you borrow from anime style, are you familiar with the yt channel, kawaii sensei? The simplicity and clear instruction is kind of amazing 😳
No never heard of that channel. I'll check it out.
Fantastic! I was taken by the fire, which appears very dynamic in its swirling motion. Great technique.
Thanks 👍
Very nice effect of the fire, and the distribution of the light, nice work ^^
Thank you ☺️
Woohooo! This should be 1st place!
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If you say so 🤣🤣🤣(kidding).
Did you notice that not a lot of people participated this week? Brataka and oscariart is barely active these days. Chopliart seems to be busy as well. Hmm... It's more fun if everyone participates haha.
I skipped last week too haha 🤣. Yeah, I noticed that too but new artists are joining😁
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What happened? Why were you so busy last month?
last month up until mid-august I think. Load of work 🥵
But I try to join the social media challenge just quick drawings~
I see so how about now? Is the work load normal now?
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Both versions of flame look awesome! 👏 do you still draw on your phone?
Ah i forgot to tell you. I bought a mid end Android tab on may 😁. I can't possibly add this much detail with a phone XD. I will go blind for sure haha.
Thanks 👍
Wow finallyyy!! I guess you're more comfortable now drawing. It reflects on your drawings 😁🙌 and here i am still haven't used my tab for artworks hahahaha 🥲
Yep it's so much easier now. I started using airbrush in some of my drawings now. Using it with fingers on a small screen was very tough and messy. Basically I can see much better now haha.
Well things happened and you were quite busy so it's understandable. Maybe atleast charge it to 60% to avoid battery decaying haha
Take care of your eyes 😆 honestly happy for you!
I have the battery protection on.. it stops at 85%. I don't know if it really does protect the battery coz sometimes i charge it at night and fall asleep waiting. 😬
Thanks hehe. My tab also has that feature. It doesn't charge at night. Although I don't like that because I draw at night most of the time lol. The trick to achieve longer battery life is to not let the battery go below 15%. I tired and this works hehe.
Yikes! I let mine go down to 5% lately 🤣
It's always better drawing at night. Hahaha
I try not to do that because the battery capacity is huge In a tab so replacement cost will be very high.
Yep, night time drawing is the best because there is no noise. Although I have some trouble these days because it's cold at night so I just want to sleep 😪.
Maybe play some upbeat music so you don't get sleepy. 😅
I'm consistently posting twice per week since a month now and it feels like work now lol. That's why I'm having this issue. I bought the tab on installment so I have to do it anyway 🤣.
Whoa. You must be drawing everyday? 😆 you can definitely pay the installment in no time. 💪
Nah, I was drawing twice a week before but Im on a break now because of the burn out from it xd.
Yeah. Take a rest..go out or do other stuff for the mean time. 😁
I want to but we have heavy rainfall here. My room feels like it's air conditioned even without the fan now lol.
I'm just sleeping a lot lately. It's not helping at all 😂.
Same here right now! Hahaha but my fan is still switched on. I also have to go out and do grocery but there was a storm since yesterday.
Oh lol are you one of those people who like to use the fan in full speed during cold weather xd?
Yez! Hahahaha i'm used to ac..that's why XD but I switched it off for 3 days already. Lol
Ah I see. I'm not used to it but by the way things are going these days we will probably buy one in the future because of the extreme heat in summer season xd
You should have one for summer coz summer heat is crazy XD my ac broke last summer which took 2 weeks before it was fixed. Sleeping was torture XD
The thing is expensive haha but you are right. In the next 5 to 10 years most households here will probably have one installed. Anyway, when am I gonna see your artworks again kat?
You'll have one someday for sure!😊
I'm planning to draw a comic later but i want to write a blog first. 😆
A comic? What's it about hehe?
Just a short meme comic about the typhoon😆
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Great work.. is very imprevisive
Thanks bro 🤩
oh god you have a very beautiful style I love every detail 🥰
Oh man, appreciate your kind words🤩.