Una nueva semana se acerca y un nuevo reto para mi nuevamente en este concurso de @Splinterlands, un espacio que me ha ayudado muchísimo a mejorar algunos aspectos de mis dibujos e ir un poco más allá de los retratos, explorar la fantasía y la magia.
Y ahora que hablamos de magia, me he inspirado muchísimo para hacer mi versión de esta carta que, aunque es una entidad, yo lo veo como algo mágico por los colores tan hermosos que tiene, para hacer este Fanart leí la Lore de esta carta y me ha gustado muchísimo este pequeño párrafo:
"De las sombras y el éter surge una entidad sobrenatural conocida solo como la Entidad Astral. Es un ser celestial que se desplaza a través de grietas en la realidad, en busca de nuevos planos y reinos"
Tenia pendiente hacer esta carta pero aun no me sentía lista para hacer este reto, pues me daba miedo que la piel no luciese bien, al leer este párrafo, me emocione muchísimo pues es un tema que me gusta demasiado e inmediatamente se me ocurrió una idea que me atrapó, quise representar esta vez a Astral Entity en una versión femenina e imponente, flotando sobre el mar y abriendo una especie de portales/grietas a diferentes mundos o dimensiones, quise elegir una paleta de colores fríos para toda la escena, en los únicos lugares donde varia los tonos son en algunas “dimensiones”.
Fue algo complicado ya que tenía muchísimo miedo por la piel, pero me gusto como quedo, espero que les guste!
A new week is approaching and a new challenge for me again in this @Splinterlands art contest, a space that has helped me a lot to improve some aspects of my drawings and go a little beyond portraits, explore fantasy and magic.
And now that we talk about magic, I have been very inspired to make my version of this card that, although it is an entity, I see it as something magical because of the beautiful colors it has, to make this Fanart I read the Lore of this card and I really liked this little paragraph:
"From the shadows and the ether comes an eldritch entity known only as the Astral Entity. It is a celestial being that drifts through rifts in reality, searching for new planes and realms"
I had pending to do this card but I still did not feel ready to do this challenge, because I was afraid that the skin would not look good, when I read this paragraph, I got very excited because it is a theme that I like too much and immediately I came up with an idea that caught me, I wanted to represent this time Astral Entity in a feminine and imposing version, floating on the sea and opening a kind of portals / cracks to different worlds or dimensions, I wanted to choose a palette of cold colors for the whole scene, the only places where the tones vary are in some "dimensions".
It was a bit complicated because I was very afraid of the skin, but I liked how it turned out, I hope you like it!
Proceso/Process
I made my sketch of the whole scene that I imagined, I chose the colors, this cost me a lot, in fact I had to paint twice because I did not know whether to start with a light tone or a dark one, in the end I chose the light blue color and filled the entire silhouette, with other shades of blue I began to shape the body and face and in new layers continue painting until mixing all the shades and create a more realistic skin, I painted some parts of the body with purple and pink to give it those illuminations of color that the original card has, the hair was quite difficult to paint since I wanted to make a kind of hair that would combine with the entity effect and I felt it looked weird, but let's trust the process.
I placed a dark blue background color and then painted some clouds in the corner of the image and a kind of sea covering the feet, in the hair I added more tones making it combine a little more and having a better sense with the whole drawing, I added more pink in the skin and some shadows with dark blue, I continued painting the background creating a circle which I filled with small shadows to make it look like the moon, I also wanted to paint some raised water on the sides of the silhouette, to give a better effect to this entity, I duplicated the layer of the whole silhouette and applied a movement blur creating this kind of aura that surrounds her.
I recently discovered a brush that has a very strange texture, I don't even know how to explain it, but it leaves this effect that I placed around it that makes it look like mmm, small flames? Well, I made those figures with that brush, I liked that effect, I applied a new layer where I began to apply illuminations, making several points of light throughout the body, I painted the portals and then creating a clipping mask I began to fill it with different landscapes that give to understand that this would be other places and times, the portals of the lower part I surrounded them with water, it just occurred to me and I liked how it looked, finally I made a color and saturation adjustment, making the image look a little more saturated and with more contrast.
Tools:
Herramientas:
Foundation: alexa-artx
Rarible : alexaart
KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
Opensea: alexa-art
Makersplace: alexaartx
Ghostmarket : alexa
NFT Showroom: alexa.art
Twitter: Alexa_Ys
