Temporal Master

Hello, Folks!

I wanted to contribute something a little different from my usual posts. I don't usually paint anything Hive related, at least, not since I started on here when we were doing DTIYS challenges and stuff.

I decided to participate in the #Splinterlands weekly contest to challenge myself, since I've been having a little bit of an art block. Getting into this was more than the challenge that I expected. But I had to take it on the chin and keep going.

For transparency, I've never played #splinterlands, even though I'm a big table-top fan (not typical for a black South African guy), being an MTG fan. But there's always room to include more gaming in one's life.

Anyway..

The Fanart

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Process

I struggled painting this, I think most because I had been sculpting and modelling more than drawing and only got back to my bullsh*t the previous week before. This is one of the sketches I was working on until I just didn't like working on it and didn't believe in the sketch.

I feel like there wasn't any energy behind it and was too generic in the pose.

Re-Working

Sketches

Since that sketch wasn't working for me, so I went on to do a different one inspired a lot by Doctor Strange. The main idea was to stay true to Temporal Master's look in spirit but plug in a cinematic post look with a focus on character.

The Painting

I went on to scan and lay out the values beneath the sketches, blocking them out. I applied a gradient map to bring in some underlying tones to guide the the base colours on top.

Final

I meant to include how I made the Aldrich Magic circle light effects but my That's will have to wait until I can afford a proper PC with the capacity to do video capture in Photoshop without lagging or crashing Photoshop.

This was a hard painting for but it helped me dust of the cobwebs and flex some painting muscle. I hope this means I'll be painting more regularly.