Happy start to the week of this new year for everyone, especially for those fellow artists who participate in this contest, as well to @Splinterlands team, for this week I have chosen a card that has attracted me a lot, Mimosa Nightshade is a card that Aesthetically it is attractive to my eyes, I find the character very pretty in general, I have also chosen her because I read her story a bit, I liked the fact of knowing that she has the gift of mental control, she is fascinating, the cold tones that we can see in this card is something that also attracted me a lot, if you realize I usually work a lot with these tones because are the ones I feel most comfortable with, it give me a lot of peace when i’m drawing.
For this representation of Mimosa I wanted to make a kind of portrait that would show a bit of her outfit, giving more details to the face, for the outfit I wanted to make a kind of leather, I think it's the first time I've painted something of this material so I don't judge me haha, it looks good despite not being perfect, I really hope you like this version of Mimosa.
I made the sketch guiding myself by the image of the original card, I tried to make the suit similar since I really like how it is and the colors, I chose the color palette for the skin, it were very warm tones, then I decided to change a bit the tonality of these colors, but very subtle using cold tones, for the eyes, at first I wanted to do the whole eye in red but I didn't like how it looked, so I left the white part of the eye and just highlighted with red the iris, I started to paint the clothes placing base tones in different layers to work better and a little more orderly.
Little by little I began to give detail to each item of clothing, using dark and light tones depending on the color I was painting, thus creating various folds and textures in the clothes, I placed a light lilac tone as a base for the hair and began to give details with light and dark paler lilacs.
Now it was time to paint this kind of power that she has in the hands, it is one of the things that I liked the most about this card and I really wanted to do it, I painted it as if it were a kind of purple and blue flare, intertwining through her fingers, For the background I wanted something really simple so I made this background with a metallic aspect, I added more details to the power in her hand making it illuminate a little more, as well as I painted some flashes of light that made some areas of the drawing stand out, finally I applied a color adjustment to the entire image adding a stronger depth and intensity.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
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Ghostmarket : alexa
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