Happy start to the week friends, today I want to share with you my new entry for the @Splinterlands art contest, this time choosing the "Lux Vega" card, a card that upon reading its description left me quite intrigued, besides that it looks quite beautiful from at first glance, I wanted to choose it this time and make a slightly more dynamic version and change some things, the truth is that it was a huge challenge because of all the details that I had to do to Lux Vega and her wardrobe, but I really enjoyed doing it, I've been wanting to recreate this card for some time, but wanted to do it where I had enough time to add details.
This time I wanted to represent the character with a perspective from a low angle, creating many flying cards around her and making the walking stick on her back as if it were some kind of swords, for this I placed two sticks, I really liked that idea, for the clothes don't really change many things since I really like her wardrobe.
As always I like to add a lot of shine and bright colors in my illustrations and this was no exception, I hope you like it.
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I began to think about my sketch and little by little I was creating each element, for this it took me several hours, after having my idea ready I began to paint, I used a pale lilac color palette varying between dark and light to create the shadows and lights on the body, place each color and in a new layer I began to blur the tones on the face and then on the rest of the body, for the hair I used a very dark blue base.
In order not to get confused and go painting each part of her clothes separately, create different layers where in each one I paint part of the clothes, placing the base tones in each part and then giving shape to each one of them, with the help of a clipping mask I was able to paint on each garment without going over the limits of the others and thus do a more delicate job, as you can see I used colors similar to those of the original card to paint the clothes, I began to take care of the background and place a dark gradient blue.
It occurred to me to play with some cold tones and create this kind of background rays, then I began to paint the cards floating in the air and some spheres similar to the ones in the costume of the original card, in a new layer I began to detail each card, I think this was what took me the most time, it was difficult to make these cards and a little confusing at times but I managed to do it the best possible, to make them stand out even more, I put pink glow in the background of each card, then I darkened a little the silhouette of Lux vega.
Paint the walking stick identical to the original and to save a bit of time, duplicate the stick already painting and paste it on the other side of her back, then create a highlighter layer where i would make glow some parts of the drawing, finally apply a color adjustment giving it more intensity to the colors.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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