Splinterlands Art Contest Week 15 | Queen of Crows

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Hello Everyone

I will be joining this week's art contest of Splinterlands, and this time, I've decided to draw a portrait of the Queen of Crows. I find it really hard to draw another while having the Inktober entries, but glad I was able to finish this one today.

ART PROCESS

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Sketch

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Clean sketch and Base Color

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Adding the light and the darkest shadows

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Then I started rendering them by softening the edges with smudge. This was the time when I kept mumbling to myself to trust the process as it looked weirder and weirder. After the smudging, I go back to some parts to paint them back as hard edges to avoid making them look muddy. Then I added the highlights on the skin using the same method; this is my favorite part of the process because it magically makes my portrait pop✨ with just those little hints of lights. I then painted the eyes and hair, I decided to paint the eyes in color to make her more appealing.

FINAL RESULT✨✨

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Thank you for your time
Happy Weekend

Tools:
💾 Krita, Lightroom
💻 XP Pen Deco mini7
🚶‍♂️ Reference

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Awesome values and shading work on this one!

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Yep! The rendering is pretty good.

Bro are you not curating spl posts these days? What happened?

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I just judge the art contest... i don't curate anymore. I do curate and manage Alien Art and Photography Lovers communities.

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Thank you @castleberry I was having hard time shading the nose because it would blend to its cast shadow I have repainted that part 3 times before I was satisfied and finally give clarity on it

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I was having hard time shading

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I think the angle was throwing you off a bit. You could see to much of the underside of the tip of the nose with the nostrils which makes shading the bridge more difficult. I put red line on the lip and nose to show how the triangles would line up for the perspective.

Noses are one of the hardest things to get right. I had a teacher that told me noses have no lines and there is only value/shading to pronounce the shape along with highlights. This helped me understand the structure of the nose and how to look at it differently.

I don't know if any of this helps but I think you did a great job. Keep on Keepin on my friend.

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