Splinterlands art contest | Enchanted Pixie
Hello hello friends.
Today for my @Splinterlands contest entry I dared to use as reference a card that I was a bit afraid of, because even though I think it's beautiful, something that shocked me a lot was the color palette it has.
This time I chose Enchanted Pixie with all the nerves in the world, I thought how I could work with so many colors that at least to my eyes do not give me harmony, then I thought of making a portrait with similar colors but more desaturated, plus a more rustic finish to make it look like a real painting, very uneven strokes and a light background where I apply some watercolor effects, I made it a little easier to work it this way, although I can not deny that it was very difficult, something I changed from the original image was a little the costume, as well as the eyes, I thought it would look a little more harmonious with yellow eyes without having black around, the hair I did a darker pink because I feel it looks better, although I tried with a stronger pink and I did not like, I hope you like it.
This time I wanted to make a portrait, so I made the sketch and chose the skin tones, which were quite pale shades, in a new layer I added more colors to finish the facial features and then continue mixing these colors together to give a better texture to the skin, then I started to paint the hair with a dark pink and added some light pink highlights, for the eyes I put a pretty nice honey tone.
After finishing with the face and hair, I started to paint the clothes, for which I made several leaves covering the chest and started painting with quite desaturated greens, for the wings I started painting with yellow and then blue, making a mix between both colors in some parts and painting quite rustic to leave texture to the wings, normally I use dark backgrounds, but this time I wanted light and clarity, so I placed as background a cream tone almost white and started painting some trees with watercolor texture around, I wanted more texture on the edges of the silhouette so I started to subtract the colors of each edge of the skin and give some random brush strokes to blend a little the background with the foreground, finally I applied lights in some areas of the skin and edited the image giving it a little more contrast.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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wow..like water color painting traditional technic, beautifull😘😊
Yeah! thank you so much dear @deddywox ❤
This water color-like coloring technique is very good and this is a good style from your other great variations of work😊
Looks like water colour, especially her wings and tree. Beautiful work as always
Thanks! 🥰
Wow!! Esta demasiado hermosa, me gusta mucho tu version. Me alegra de que usado esa paleta de colores a tu favor. Mucha suerte! 🎨
Muchas gracias @mario02 💕
https://twitter.com/AlienArtHive/status/1732470209330520417
Me encanta tu estilo, quedo preciosa admito que yo una vez la dibuje y pinte, pero no me termino de agradar y la termine descartando , es cierto lo que mencionas de los colores.. a ti te quedo preciosa!
Jajaja sii, tiene colores muy fuertes y dificiles de combinar, hay que buscarle otra perspectiva
Gracias 💙💛