Splinterlands art contest | Meriput Magician
Hello, good evening everyone.
I am quite happy to present this drawing for my entry to the @Splinterlands art contest this week, very happy because I did something different and that I felt that I was not going to do well but in the end I loved it very much, I have told you on several occasions that I am not very good at drawing creatures, animals and things like that, it really is a fear that I have as an artist, besides I prefer portraits a thousand times than anything else, also although it seems strange, when I try to draw tender things on my Tablet, they don't come out as well as I do with pencil and paper, but I couldn't resist to try it this time because I found this card extremely beautiful and adorable, this time I show you my version of Meriput Magician one of the new cards that has stolen my heart for being so beautiful haha, it inspired me a lot and it cost me too much to achieve it because it is a totally different style even though at the time of painting I tried to keep my essence and my usual strokes, maybe I didn't get as realistic as I would have liked but I feel that I hit the adorable face and big eyes full of light, I hope you like it.
I started the sketch a few days ago, but this time it was more difficult, because I had to do something completely different to what I always do, I started to trace the shape of the face drawing a circle with a red color, that would allow me later to make a better shape but reviewed in black, to have a cleaner sketch, I drew the whole face creating some circles and guiding me by the reference photo and also some pictures of little mice in Google hahaha, to see how it would be more or less the shape of the face, nose, mouth and hands, then I added a new layer and started to go over giving better shape to the sketch, creating a little cleaner lines to start painting, as the card has some green tones, I dedicated to use green colors for the fur, for the inside of the ears a pink and some white on the edges of the silhouette, I applied the colors leaving lights and shadows and then I created another layer where I added even more colors to finish forming a little better the figure and fur, I also started to paint the clothes, using the colors that the card has but a little more desaturated.
After placing the base colors on the clothes, I was in charge of detailing completely the face, this was very difficult, because I didn't want to use a brush with hair texture or something like that because it would look very unnatural, so I decided to paint the fur with a hard brush and creating myself the little hairs with brush strokes of different color, size and opacity, I loved painting the eyes and the little hands, they looked too tender, then I placed eyebrows and eyelashes and she looked even more beautiful, now I started to paint each garment, starting with the cape, creating folds with lights and shadows, likewise the dress, I wanted to change a little the costume putting a full dress, because to be honest I was not good at making costume of the original card, however, I feel it looks nice this way anyway haha, after painting all the clothes, I started to paint the accessories, I decided to put two earrings, because she would look tougher this way despite having a sweet face.
For the background I decided to do something in green in combination with yellow and sky blue, creating this kind of moon silhouettes in the back and some smoke, then I painted the scepter, following the original image, then I realized that the drawing looked very bright in contrast with the background, so I added a new "multiply" layer and darkened a little the silhouette, then I created another layer but this time of lights, illuminating a little more the eyes, the nose, the scepter, and the background, I finished my drawing editing the whole image playing a little with the curves tool and Camera Raw, until I had a result that I liked even more.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
Foundation: alexa-artx
Rarible : alexaart
KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
Opensea: alexa-art
Makersplace: alexaartx
Ghostmarket : alexa
NFT Showroom: alexa.art
Twitter: Alexa_Ys
Instagram : artx.alexa
Que lindo y tierno te quedo amigo . Me encantó .
The artwork has such a lovely depth from your use of light and shadow. It is really amazing.