SAND WORM

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THE SAND WORM.

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This is the first time I will be participating in this contest or any at all on hive. So far I haven't gotten a warm welcome and navigating the system is tasking. I have played my part though and made sure to check out whatever I find to be of help or useful.
It was in one of my snooping sessions that I came across some splinterlands art entries and this led me here, right to this post. I was fascinated by the fact that the game has been on for this long and also that the characters available are as vast as ideas. There were so many cards I wanted to try out but the pose of the Sand Worm reminded me of Nagini from the Fantastic Beasts stories. It was this essence therefore that I wanted to capture: the slimy, conny attitude of a predator.

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the card

I kicked off the drawing with a rough sketch of the character with my primary color and tried my best not to make it pronounced so that it wouldn't affect the future layers...

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I then made a quick run through with my black and red pen on the given layout. The main idea was to have the worm head out after slithering through the hanging cliffs.

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To depict the little distance I was perceiving I darkened the said areas with black and made the worm more pronounced with blue.

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...after with I crafted the layout of a dog who was to be a spectator. The throry behind this is to have that horror movie effect where the dog looks on and is then snatched.

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As the layout of the dog became pronounced I added more depth to certain areas to boost the figure and it turned out well.

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I think the next thing I did was to make firm the surface on which the dog is standing and then add some red to depict dripping blood.

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The materials I used while making this sketch are blue, black and red pens from two brands: BIC and SCHNEIDER

You are more than welcome to stop by. I promise to always keep you entertained with my art.