This is my entry for the weekly Splinterlands Art Contest found HERE
From the Splinterlands Wiki: https://splinterlands.fandom.com/wiki/Undead_Priest
The Dark Eternals do not consider themselves religious. Their skilled magical sorcerers are known throughout the Splinterlands as Undead Priests. It is said that the Undead Priests have the power of mind control, that they are able to destroy an opponent’s very will.
Created in Clip Studio Paint Pro on a Surface Pro 4. Here is the time lapse video:
And here is the drawing broken down into individual process steps:
One: Rough Draft
Two: Line art
Three: Create a flat layer for the entire figure (and hide the rough draft)
Four: Make separate clipped layers for the gold, cloth, hair, and skull. I accidentally did some of the shading on the wrong layer...
Five: See, I was supposed to have all the shading here on a separate multiply layer
Six: Generate a background layer using Nightcafe AI art generator using prompt "Dungeon Chamber..." This is what it gave me.
Seven: Copy pasta the background layer in. Blow it up and blur it out.
Eight: Add some glow effects over the background layer and the foreground layer. Also make some green smoke and add my signature in the bottom corner. Let's hear it for 2024!