Hello Everyone, I am entering my first ever Splinterlands art contest. I am quite new to sketching and digital art, but it is fun to take part in. For my first fan art, I have drawn Hill Giant who is one of my favorite monsters in the Earth Splinter.
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Hill Giant
The Hill Giant is one of my favorite monsters because of his awesome Stun ability, low mana cost and decent health score. I think this is because of his club that he can stun his opponents and gain an unfair advantage.
Very often I am using him with low to mid-level mana battles with magic attack as the tank. Even against some stronger opponents I still like to use him because of the stun ability to give a really good advantage against a powerful tank. His only disadvantage is that he is a bit slow. The image from the lore here was the source of my inspiration.
First of all I sketched him out in pencil to try and get a feel for him. Next I then tried to digitalise him in Procreate.
Here is the animation of how I made it:
I first made a sketch of him and worked around the different areas before then adding some shading in at first using the original pen but then saw it was better to use a different brush and adjust the opacity.
I then added some color and worked around the outline again to give it more emphasis.
And here is the final output of my work:
I have only been learning to create digital art for around 2 months now, so it still has a long way to go to be something professional, but I quite like it.
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