Hello community! Today begins a new week in this @splinterlands contest and I wanted to draw a character that I quite liked "Queen of Crows" the truth is that this card is beautiful, although it seemed like a very difficult job I became obsessed with doing this drawing, sometimes I feel that my style does not fit much with fantasy and I would like to achieve that, I would really love to be able to adapt to a style more similar to this and today I feel very happy because I feel that I have managed to take a fairly big step.
Some of my friends helped me with ideas that I could recreate and this time I used a photo that I took of myself as a reference to make the pose of my character, I had never done this and it was quite fun, I hope you like.
Using my photograph as a reference I began to paint the sketch, this sketch was quite difficult because I wanted to add several elements, I had to draw her clothes, the floating book, some magic streaks coming out of it and several crows, I cleaned the sketch to work on a little better without confusion, for the skin I chose a purple color palette, placing dark and light tones.
After painting the skin for a while I realized that she looked too purple and it was going to confuse a bit with the costume and also the background that I was thinking of doing, so I chose to slightly change the tone of her skin by applying a color adjustment and giving a slightly yellow tone resulting in a slightly softer and warmer purple, I continued painting her clothes and the truth is that I loved this part, her dress is very beautiful and I just realized that her corset also has a crow formed, I loved that detail and I did it by changing the order of the colors, then I began to paint the book using brown, gold and purple tones, placing these base colors and then in a new layer give the shape to each page of the book, I did the same with her hat and hair adding details in new layers.
Apply alot details in each part of the drawing and then draw the background, using purple and blue tones creating a kind of spiral that I loved, paint some crows coming out of the book and painting them in a rustic way to give an effect as if the crows disappear into their tails and accompanied by a nice bright pink light behind, it's time to paint some magical curves coming out of the book. To do this, use a screen effect layer and paint using a light purple tone.
I thought it was a great idea to add some feathers around the whole drawing and so I did it, for this I used a feather texture brush and I put them all over the drawing varying between sizes and angles, finally I applied a color adjustment to create a little more intensity and my drawing was ready.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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