Splinterlands Fan Art Week 240 - RULER OF THE SEAS 🌊

Good day, everyone! I'm back to making Splinterlands fan art. This one is from the idea of making arts about mermaid in which my first time knowing about MerMay. I came across one of @jijisaurart's posts and read about MerMay 2023 | ArtPark Weekly posted by @artpark, so I thought I'd give it a shot. You can check the hive post here. For this fan art, I drew Ruler Of The Seas.

Because Ruler of the Seas is portrayed as elderly and grumpy, I created a baby version of it. I used Clip Studio Art to make this fan art, beginning with the line art. I attempted to make the line art as crisp as possible while also making some lines thicker and others thinner. Because I wanted to imagine this card as a happy creature, I made the face smile. Can you imagine him dancing? (Ah, ha, ha, ha, staying alive, staying alive.) I then applied the flat colors in whic I attempted to replicate the character's original color.

During the process of applying shadows, I used a soft airbrush to apply dark to light tones of the color and then blended them together with a blend tool. To add more details, I painted some scales to his face using a turnip pen. The headband now resembled those used by those doing aerobics and/or zumba dance, which I believe is ideal for his pose. For the background, I used the grass patch tool to add some grass and painted a rock-like formation for the base. To emphasize that he is at the bottom of the sea, I made the background black. In the background, I also put some corrals.

I then used the lightning pen I downloaded to add lightning effects. For the lightning, I used a light blue hue and set the blending mode to add (glow). I then added another layer, changed the blending mode to glow dodge, and applied a lighter blue color. I used a soft airbrush and sprayed white color on his finger to add more glow, then adjusted the blending mode to add (glow).

I used various tones of blue and purple and blended them together to add more elements to the background. Additionally, I added bubble and sparkle effects and motion blur to them to make them appear to be sizzling as a result of the lightning.

Here is the outcome after some adjustments. I hope you like this character that I had pleasure singing, er, sketching.