I have returned after a few day, I hope my dear Hivers and fans of #Splinterlands are having a nice day !!! We are halfway through the week and almost the end of the month. Today I want to show you my entry for the #Splinterlands contest. This time I wanted to do something different, since I always do the character my way but it's still the same character.
In this opportunity I just took the character as an inspiration and worked on something different, although adding the essence of the design. I must admit that this one did not take me long, but I have been a bit busy with some things and I did not feel so good in health, the bad internet also makes its magnificent contribution to this so uploading the images, as stupid as it may seem, has been a long work.
Haunted Spider Character I have selected.
The card that I selected is one of the oldest, when I was looking for a character to do as I always saw this cute spider and I preferred to take that option.
To make this drawing I was seeing many spiders aahh and besides that I looked for the Jorogumo, that if we say so it would be like the girl I wanted to create. Something funny happened and it is that a few years ago I made a drawing of Jorōgumo, when I searched for references on the internet to my surprise, my drawing appeared, that made me laugh a lot, even though it was great to see it there hahha, I opened it and it seems to me that now it would change quite a few things, but at the time it was decent.
Last week I got the cable that I needed for the computer. When I put it together I bought two monitors that came together but I only used one since I lacked the cable for the other, the computer was a pirate. The good thing is that now I can use both and I can have a little more order when drawing, I will be able to make the videos again, although I had some setbacks and I have to solve them.
Going back to what matters, making this drawing was quite good, I made some changes and improvements that I didn't use to do before, it was faster, I was looking for something different and I don't know but it was very easy to get it, I think the portraits are working. I don't know if the next one will stay like this hahahaha.
~ 1️⃣ Starting with the sketch ~
The sketch as always was very simple, although it is always subject to change, at first I had a very different idea with the character, since it was not going to have as much background and she would look closer, but as you saw in the previous image, I changed of idea.
~ 2️⃣ A little color and texture ~
When I was doing this drawing it was partly funny when I started drawing it seemed like I was learning to draw a couple of years ago, I don't know if it was because I added the other monitor, the Tablet behaved a bit strange, although that was no excuse for Weird colors like that, I don't know, it just looks like plastic to me, but it was a start, so it's ok I guess. In the sketch it looked like she was going to fall over, so I straightened her up a bit.
~ 3️⃣ Experimenting with the background ~
This is a clear example that the photos I take of anything are useful. The eggs that I placed on top of the spider's butt, so far it was one of the photos that I have in my textures folder, just a base so far. What was that photo of? hahhahhahh that's so funny I was unexpected.
~ 4️⃣ Changing some things ~
I've been drawing and I've done a couple of things in the background, but I decided that it was time to do something more on the girl, so I kept adding more, the spider legs were bigger. At first she didn't have legs so she put them on to see how she looked and the result convinced me so I left them like that.
To make the skin I used a normal brush, I changed the tone of the colors since before it looked more orange and since it was going to be a cave this was not the right thing to do. The part of the butt and what was the detail on the leg was on a better path, I didn't want the eggs to be left out in the open.
~ 5️⃣ We are on a good way ~
The details in her were improving although the colors the skin is looking better seemed boring to me and it was more reddish. I did the face but I didn't want that to look like a mask but it was part of her as well as the butt, the legs and so on. The eggs were safe, I changed a little how the spider's butt looked, it was already part of the girl and not just an accessory. I tried to do something different in the background, but it didn't work.
~ 6️⃣ I do like this! but I wanted a little more ~
As I said before the color of the skin was not what I wanted, but I did some tests, some adjustments with the curves, saturation and then doing magic she obtained a paler color, I did not want it to look dead either, I got it by placing some shadows a little more purple and try to avoid black or brown, add some details on the arm of the same material as the little clothes she had.
In this step I finished what was missing in the rear of the spider, to that and to the legs I also adjusted the colors, in terms of the position and the number of legs I also adjusted that, the background returned as it was in previous steps and I only finish fixing.
In the previous steps the body looked a bit shapeless so I thinned the waist a bit and gave the leg more shape.
In the arms throughout the process I did not do much until I reached this point, I made the hand and added a small detail to it, I kept adjusting the colors, the shadows, the lights and others.
Something that could not be missing was the skull that has the design of the card, so I added it to the girl's sword, I did some blurring of the background a little and I thought that with that this character was ready.
