Happy almost start of the week friends, this week for the @Splinterlands art contest I wanted to participate with a card that I was really FEARED this card of Spirit of the Forest I consider it one of the most difficult to work with because of the tones that can be seen in the skin, and if you paint it wrong it can look pretty ugly, so I have encouraged myself today to this challenge where I wanted to represent Spirit of the Forest with a very magical scenario, full of fantasy and green tones, I thought it would be something simple when I had the idea, but it really was a very hard work, especially in achieving this skin tone that looks real but with a green hue, I am very happy with the result after so many hours struggling with this drawing I feel it was worth it, I hope you like my entry this week.
As I told you I wanted a fantasy result, I don't practice this style very often, but since this card has a nature look I wanted to use it this time, so I thought of a forest, many plants and a rose that shines a lot, I wanted to change the clothes and make something more simple and low-cut, I chose the tones to use, where I used different green colors that would work to make a colorful skin but at the same time realistic, I began to place all the tones applying lighter on the right side and darker on the left side, in a new layer I began to detail more the skin adding more tones and mixing them, for the hair I used a dark green and for the clothes I subtracted the color of the original costume of spirit of the forest, but changing a little the saturation looking for a color a little less saturated.
I put some highlights and shadows on the hair to make it look more real, I painted the tiara on her head and I was already worrying a little bit about the background so I couldn't wait and started painting this kind of tree trunk behind, for this I used a brown base and then I started adding other tones creating curves that gave the appearance of a tree, I painted some grass varying with different shades of green, a dark sky and the tree silhouette behind, I thought it was a good idea to add some falling leaves. After all these details I painted the gem that has the tiara and of course, the branches that come out from the head, I wanted to make these branches without leaves and just make them in a way that they blend with the tree in the background, as if they were roots.
I added different plants on top where I would paint many leaves and the rose, I didn't make so many details to the rose because it was going to be covered a little bit with this light coming out inside it, to make that light effect look a little better I decided to add a multiply layer and paint the left side making it look darker, I added a screen layer with a brush adjustment in "overlay" and started to add light details in all the parts of the drawing that I considered needed light, finally I applied an adjustment to the image where I gave it more clarity and depth and it was ready!
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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