Greetings @alienarthive community, today I'm passing through here because in some parts of the world they celebrate what is known as Halloween, although there are many opinions about this celebration, as long as one does not do it with bad intentions and it is rather to enjoy the good life, I do not see a negative effect. Even so, leaving that aside, I bring you an illustration with this theme, because I wanted to do it and practice a little color theory.

On this occasion, first I made the sketch of the character in red lines, which is a little witch, accompanied by a witch's hat (with a pumpkin); an owl on one side and a moon in the background. After I had the sketch, I made the clean lines and painted the whole background in a medium blue.

First I wanted to color the background, to make the details, so I gave it some colors in different blues and reds (between oranges and reds) in smoke effect; also some lights to simulate the stars.

With this step ready, I proceeded to paint the moon, first the base in white, but as I wanted it to be a red moon, I first added some faded yellow colors, adding different shades of red, as well as an area in black, to simulate the craters of the moon.

With the red moon ready, I proceeded to my witch's hat, detailing the pumpkin, giving it its respective lights and shadows.

I colored the hat with a dark gray base, and as I had the moon behind, the lights would reflect on the contours of this, I really liked this part, because with the finger brush I was able to make those folds of it. Afterwards, I painted the ribbon part in purple colors, with red shades.

I proceeded with the hair, which would be red, for the shadow of this I used a high tone color, then gave the layer the blend mode “multiply” and playing with the brightness/contrast settings and, as well as the hat I reflected the lights of the moon around it.

For the skin part, I used a medium tone and gave it the respective shadows, which is almost completely, I only gave it some predominant lights in certain areas, such as some contours and the cheekbone part of it.

I painted her eyes blue and her mouth red. To finish off the little witch, I painted her clothes in black and her hair in light blue tones, to give her that diamond touch.

Now came the owl, which I painted completely in brown, where little by little I gave him the details of the eyes, the beak and some feather effects, I helped myself with some brushes that Krita brings by default that help to blur in different ways.

For finishing touches, I added more light and star effects around the little witch.

I added a new layer, on top of the whole drawing in a color between orange and red in a blending mode of “soft light” and lowered the opacity to 22%.

Next, another layer on top of this one, however, instead of a color, but some textures that Krita brings by default that, if paper style, or thread strands; in a blend mode of “soft light” and lowering the opacity to 54%.

For a final touch up and to give the whole illustration that mysterious tone, I added an orange gradient to the lower area of the whole compassion.

The final result is this…