Sorriel the Bale Splinterlands Weekly Art Contest Entry
Hello, how are you? Today, all my family is at home because class is being suspended due to a tropical cyclone that is making landfall today. It has been raining lightly this morning and this afternoon, but the wind and rain are getting stronger. This is a perfect time to sleep and draw. I love to draw when the weather is cold. And I hope the rain stops already because the Philippines is suffering from floods, and that thing is compounded by corruption happening. Which makes my blood boil so much.
So, for my entry for this week, I chose Sorriel the Bale, which reflects what I felt last month, September is not my month, so many things happen, and I just wanted a week's break from it LOL. Like I just touch something bad, a bad thing happens to it, and thank God, I am in October is a fresh start for me, and I am feeling super great.
So yeah, fire is what I feel inside me right now, so I chose Sorriel, and he looks like someone from down below, so if I were this character, I would drag those corrupt people down there LOL.
The Process:
For the line art, it took me three layers of sketch before I was satisfied with the sketch, and I used a detail marker to draw the line art to achieve the clean line art. I turned on the stabilization of the brush, my hand is kind of shaky, that's why.
The next process of the drawing is before I start adding the base color to each part of the character. I like to fill the background with gray, just so I can see more tone on the canvas, so I can easily add base colors. To add the base color, I use the shape fill tool brush, and I make sure they have their own layer, so rendering later is easier.
Before I added the base color, I added texture to the canvas, and then I added the base shadows and highlights. I use the shape fill tool brush where the part is dark and light, which makes it easier to render later than adding it manually.
For this part of the process, I lower the opacity of the line between 50% and then I blur those shadows using the filter Gaussian Filter, which saves me a lot of time that doing it manually. I added more darker layer to the shadows I added earlier.
For this part of the process, I completely turn down the opacity of the line art, because he has a power of fire reflection of the fire that should reflect on his body to make that reflection effect. I set the blending mode of the brush to overlay and set the color to yellow color and just brushed the part that hit the light from his body. To make it more the character shine I completely darkened the background, which worked as I expected.
For the final process of the drawing, I added more contrast to the character, and I added more shadow depth to the part that needed to be. Fixing the part that needed to be fixed. Because his power is fire, I added just a little smoke effect that comes with the fire power. And I added a highlight for the finishing touch, which makes everything better.
Original Character
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Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))
Materials:
Gear: XP-Pen Deco 1 v2
Program: Krita
Duration: 5 hours
Thanks for sharing! - @cieliss
