I was looking at old cards to check what cards need some updates like what I did with Kiara Lightbringer.
I saw an old wizard which I think I could make it look better and so I did.
For this week, we'll be taking a new look of the old Alric Stormbringer.
Also, I think watching a lot of Magic The Noah videos is rubbing off on me as you can see on my recent art timelapse. If you haven't seen him yet, I recommend you would. His videos are really funny.
Drawing Process
Guide and Lineart
In the goal to make my guides at the beginning better, I think I made it worse. The lineart is way better as my lines are starting to get more and more consistent (please don't zoom). I think the 5px size pen though is better than last week with Kiara Lightbringer, which I used 10px as a trial. Overall, this would be my best one up to date and it's hilarious to me because I never changed anything in my style.
Base Color
While you see a lot of colors in the color guides, that's because this one has a lot of pieces and I want each part to be differentiated as much as possible. One good example is that the inner part of the outer robe and the inner part of the cape, they both should have one inner color for having similar outer ones. I changed it so you can be differentiate it and it worked really well.
Add Details
Instead of jumping in and adding shadows, I made a sort of guide in which ones I will be doing. I think it's a good visual guide for the ones who would be seeing this guide so they can follow it as well. It's also good for me because I can imagine and have more visual of the whole image after it's shadowed even before doing it. So, I think this part would be staying in the future.
Crystal Ball
In the original art, it was green. I didn't like it because not only it didn't fit the blue scheme, it also didn't fit the overall theme being a Water element summoner. So, very simple, I changed it to blue. I also added the water symbol inside as well to make it more obvious that he's a water summoner.
Fire and Effects
Like the crystal ball, I honestly want to change its color to blue since Alric Stormbringer is a water summoner. I didn't do so and let it stay purple just because I don't want it to look like floating water instead of fire. For the process, I did the same as what I did in my Tarsa art, I used a five colored scheme for the fire starting with a dark purple going to the middle white.
I don't know if it's ADHD or I'm just hyped seeing that my style really worked like I wanted this time. I still think I needed to add more in here as Alric still wasn't look magical despite the staff and fire. I added random things around him in blue theme and glad that it worked.
Background
For the background, first, I changed it to blue to resemble a sky. I used 30% opacity pen and drew random circles with white color. Drawing them repeatedly in the same spot will overlap the colors making it whiter and whiter with each overlap. This creates a cloud-like look. I'm proud of this one because I just tried it on the spot and it worked.
I thought it was a little bland still so I added some brown spots here and there. I learned about how ink blot test work recently and applied the same concept in here. The ink blot concept is called Paradoila which is a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful images from random things. While mine isn't full paradoila because I do intend them to be birds, it's still designed to evoke pareidolia-like effect because those are really just random blots. I didn't even zoom to make it look decent. I want to see if the idea works and it did.
Full Timelapse
Original Art
Hi, y'all. Slimey here, your jolly and gullible little blue slime. I got reincarnated to this world to better my art and join community challenges to get more practice and improve my skill.
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Images are taken from Splinterlands, Drawn in Krita, Animated in Photoshop and Edited in Canva.