Splinterlands Community holds a art contest on weekly basis on Hive . For participation people have to make one of there Cards from Splinterlandscards.com and draw it in there own art style or make something inspired by it. Tracing , copying and any kind of Plagiarism is not allowed . I also take part in this contest almost every week . It's a great opportunity to learn more about character designs and digital art for me .
For my entry this week I'm drawing a card called " Feasting Seaweed ".
So the Character is basically a hand drowning in the swarm of sea weeds which are canibals. We also can see teeth and big jaw like buds also resembling to Venus fly trap here .
I kept all that in mind and clicked a picture of my hand for reference here like a hand that's reaching out of mud . Next I just sketched it over paper and around it I dress some vines with this bud like jaws . That was my initial sketch so I imported that sketch in Medibang paint pro . After importing the sketch I traced it with a pen sharp brush and traced the bud jaws too making it more sharp and edgy looking . Next I select a marker brush and start making vines on 3 different layers.
The next step was to shade each vine and clipping layers over it I selected a part where I thought the vine was going behind the hand and shaded it dark green with the gradient tool . I did all the vine same way that really created a depth and now we could differentiate between what's further and what's over the hand.
Now I just clipped another layer over each vine layer and with a lighter sea green color I made some highlights over the vines to show where the light was hitting it and to create more 3d effect.
After this I colored the buds with a crimson red shade and it's inner mouth was painted a deeper dark red . I also added flat colors to the hand.
Now with a tangerine shade I shaded all the lines. And edges of the hand and the skin then I guassian blurred it do it looks just like skin.
Now I colored the lineart of the hand smart way
Same way I started adding more shading on the buds as well making it more darker on the edges just like the hand but I also added some highlights on top of it colored the lineart with a maroon shade . Now I made some teeth on the vines like little suckers just like the original character had .
I think by this part my whole character is pretty much complete but I decided to add a background to match this.
I added a dark sea green and brown gradient and over it I added some foliage and bush silhoute just so it looks like this is all under water in a swamp .
I did some light adjustments by adding a blue layer on top and lowering opacity I set this layer on saturation in layer blending mode.
Lastly I added my water mark to the final piece and here is the finished look .
That's all for today I hope you liked my attempt . Thanks you for your precious time and support ❤️