Welcome once again to this humble art post, today's dish comes with wings, we will taste a beautiful goddess of the skies, the one with fire colored hair and wings with the color of the sea, today is time to witness the majesty of Adelade Brightwing.
Yes, yes, I know that Adelade looks much tougher than in her game card, but I wanted to paint her imposing and powerful, since she leads the most powerful legion that faces the forces of chaos, so in battle any monster, vermin or being that wants to dedicate itself to evil will tremble before her presence. On the other hand I must confess that I have loved the result I have obtained with her, I am getting closer and closer to my artistic goals, although I want the day to come when I can paint exactly as I wish.
As usual, I started by sketching the character, she looks very cool in the corner of the camera, but I actually sketched her in the middle of the canvas in order to set the proportions correctly and then I did bring her to the final position. Also, immediately in a new layer under the sketch, I set the shape in grays and with them I started to give the first details taking special attention to the wings.
The wings were a bit reddish, so I used color balance or CTRL+U to bring the wings to blue. As for the rest of the character, I applied a layer in "color" blend mode to of course bring the grays to the color, supporting it with a layer in "soft light" mode to give more brightness and saturation to the colors.
To continue, it is necessary to mix the layers that I had until now, since there were several layers between the sketch, the grays, the color layer and the soft light layer, now all of them are joined in a single layer where the whole body of Adelade is (in addition to the layer of the wings and the background). Already having less layers getting in the way, I proceeded to start the detailing of the character, focusing on the clothes, where I wanted to give a spandex look to the fabric of the arms and I had to select with the lasso the shield of the chest and transform it to correct its shape and place it correctly.
And of course I should not leave behind the details of the face, as I said before, unlike the friendly and cheerful face that Adelade has in the official letter of Splinterlands, I wanted to give her a harder expression with less joyful gleams in the pupils and I focused more on a mighty look full of seriousness and power, a look that leaves no room for defiance, because you know you have already lost the battle to see directly into her eyes.
I worked the wings in several layers, since this way it is easier to work the feathers, so each row of feathers represents a layer, which was blocking to be able to illuminate to taste without affecting the rest of the wing. On the other hand, as for the fabric of the arms, try to paint some wrinkles of the fabric to stretch and compress in places like the elbows, plus an iridescent effect to make it more interesting to the eye, this effect was achieved with gradient map where I added different colors and then apply them gently with the help of a layer mask, this effect covers the wings, the shield of the chest and a little of the brightness of the magic of his hand.
I will leave you a GIF with the whole process on it, so you can better appreciate the illustration process.
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