Splinterlands art contest week #282 (Haunted spider)

For the people who dont about Splendor and art contest here is a little brief about it out. Basically splinterlands community on hive blog chain holds an art contest every week . And to participate in this are contest art contest people are required to draw There Card Characters from Splinterlandscard.com into their own original art style all they have to make something inspired from the characters. The rules are very simple no Tracing , no Plagerism and no Copy pasting other peoples work . Just do your own thing and write about the process a bit and Take a part . Every participant gets rewarded by curators so this is a great Oppurtunity to earn also for practicing as an artist . Because splinterlands has some of the most unique and cool characters around.

Just like every week here i'm again taking a part in this amazing contest . Today i will be drawing a Card called "Haunted Spider".

Lets discuss the character before me draw, so on the card spider has like very edgy and pointy thin limbs , which means they are dangerous and also they have a skull pattern on their body . the lower claws are silverish while the rest of the limbs is like a leather black reflective susrface . The body looks very fuzzy and is purple with 8 red eyes and two fangs so thats the basic things i have to keep in mind as i do an sketch.

Now all the characteristics that i wrote I will go to sketch according to that now you can see that I have sketched and the limbs look a bit wiggly but I will fix that when I digitally convert this sketch . I did the placement of the spider and how i wanted him to sit on a cob web . so here our initial sketch is ready . Now I will digitally convert this into a lineart so for that I am using in digital app called Medi bang paint Pro this is an app that you can use in your phone and in any device for free. Now i begin by making the torso of our spider first with a pen sharp brush and i made this on a new layer i did add some fur like lines so the body looks fuzzy , next i traced the Limbs too except the sharp claws every part where the other limb joins i made a red ball over it because the limbs in spiders have joints like this. next i add the skull pattern the eyes and sharp claws and here our basic Lineart is done and we have our character her .
the 2nd Step is Adding basic Colors so i added the flat colors to the spider i use the mid tones for this because i will be adding highlights and shading too so the Flat colors need to be neutral like this pale dull purple , the sage mint color for the claws and a dark grey for the limbs

after the Flat colors lets add some cool background to our Spider for this i used a brown and green gradient and after that i manually added som leaves to the back ground . Next i wanted a cob web that the spider was seated on and i made that cob web with a pen sharp brush and here we are . for the Final background i actually went into the saturation pallete and changed the hue a bit and i think this really suits the spider too.

Now for the Rendering part i first added some dark purple to the torso and guassian blurred it and on top i added some baby pink highlights to the opposite direction and guassian blurred it to set the layer blemding mode to screen . for the Limbs i added some white dots and lines and guassian blurred them then set them at hard lightly and they look like reflective leather details . now for the claws i did the same highlighted on side just . After this i added some more shading to the pink pattern on the spider and his eyes i made them have glow . so now that our rendering was quite done . So to finish the piece i did some light and color adjustments increased the saturation some more and added my Water mark .