Two Healers | Sprout and Splash

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Meet Sprout and Splash, two magical healers. Splash brings calm with water and heals the rivers, while Sprout brings life to the forest and strengthes the trees. They are different and unique but work together to keep nature in balance. When their world starts to fall apart and everything feels heavy, they join forces to brings peace and healing which slowly brings nature back to life.

This is the first time I'm painting something like this, two different characters in one canvas, it was tough but worth it.
Some days, my art flows like magic. Other days? It drags me through hell, I second guessed every single choice and it really tested my patience. I changed certain things so many times I lost count, i took breaks, stepped away, came back, peeped through the sides lmao. At some point, I said;

“Maybe I’ll just start something new or just paint the characters separately on different canvases”

But I didn’t. Instead, I came back and kept at it. Honestly, I struggled with this because I don't practice as often as I should because I don't think this work is that complex for the time I spent on it. Now that it’s done, I can breathe a little.

PROCESS

This painting is based on this drawing from my sketchbook but I still did a quick sketch and turned off this layer. I added base colours to their skin, I wanted one to have a lighter skintone and the other a dark skin and this decision worked out well. I also painted flat colours colour for both hairs and then did the face, the part I enjoyed most was painting the headpiece and the one on their arms, it looks really nice. I used different techniques for the rendering and it was quite fast and looks great, I played around with lots of blend modes like divide, overlay, glow dogde and add. I struggled so much with the lighting because it didn't just look right at first but eventually figured it out. Overall, I love how this turned out.....

Sketch