After several weeks without having enough time to participate in the @Splinterlands art contest today I was finally able to make a fan art and this time of one of my favorite cards: Lira the Dark, this time a simpler version where I didn't want to place the same suit or accessories of the original card, instead I wanted to make a kind of leather shirt and I thought it was an interesting idea to make lira the dark submerged in water but in red color, almost simulating blood, although it is a portrait try to give it many possible details to make it look very nice, I quite liked it I feel that it has those dark vibes that this card deserves, I hope you like it.
I made my sketch and started to color, this time I chose tones for the skin that were mostly pink, because I wanted to give a different contrast to this drawing, for the shadows I used some brown tones and red for the lips, in a new layer I added more colors giving better shape to the face and then start to mix and blend these colors leaving a softer texture, I put a dark purple base color in the hair and also painted the cap with a dark brown.
Then I started to add highlights to the hair with lighter purple, for the clothes I placed a dark brown tone and then I added highlights with whites, blues and lighter browns and shadows with black, I wanted to add some blood running through the mouth and I loved it, then I changed the background to a desaturated red color and I started to give details with different shades of red drawing waves in this "sea"
I added a layer of lights where I applied points of light in the clothes, eyes, nose, lips and in the part of the body that is in contact with the water, then I realized that I had to add at least one ray of red light as the original card and I thought of drawing them on each side of the head with lines of different sizes and brightness, finally I made an image editing giving it a little cooler tone, I really feel that the editing level up a little more the final result.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro