-Step 1:

You know how much I love to force the perspectives and this time was not going to be an exception, I tried to place the character in the middle of the canvas, starring completely the whole scene, also I resorted to Clip Studio Paint to take a 3D model of a spear and place it at the right angle following the position of the arm, but as I made some cuts to the 3D model to improve its shape, I had to draw a guide line that let me know which is the middle of the spear, to transform it correctly in Sola's staff.

-Step 2:

Because I would place Sola in a night environment, I have chosen a cool color palette for the character, and I have drawn the shape of each element of the character using Photshop's pen tool to separate them in different layers. Then with the airbrush I gave the first touches of shading on the clothes, and I lightened a little the skin, since the base color was a bit dark.

-Step 3:

To detail the clothes I used a brush I have called "Airbrush Noisy" which leaves a very nice texture that matches the shimmer and shadows of the clothes correctly, I also adjusted the gold tone of the metallic embellishments to match the night setting. For the skin I used the hard light fusion mode and with this I gave some subtle touches of violet color between the illuminated areas and the shadows on the skin.

-Step 4:

In the original image of the Splinterlands card, Sola is on her back, so I was completely unaware of the design of her clothes on the front, so I wanted to give her some details, not so complex, but enough to make them eye-catching and more interesting than just the plain fabric. And I also took the opportunity to adjust the color of the tip of Sola's staff.

-Step 5:

Finally it's time to work on the background, for this I first made a big moon just behind Sola Rangell's head, with this I managed to achieve contrast and therefore more focus on Sola's face. I also gave more detail to the tip of the staff.

Something important to talk about is the railing behind the main character, I didn't make it myself, I looked for a free 3D model, I found it in free3d, but I didn't even download the model, I just took the preview image, cut it out and adapted it to the perspective I needed and then I coloured it adapting it to the artwork environment.

Then I was patiently rendering, highlighting the lighting of the scene, normally I would have detailed the small details as much as possible, but I knew that many of them would be lost when uploading the image to hive, so I preferred to avoid spending hours on it, so I spent some time playing with the blending modes to give glows worthy of the Lunakari's magic, highlighting the use of "overlay", "soft light" and "hard light", I also applied a kind of glitch effect, which is achieved by duplicating the illustration, turning off some channels of the RGB spectrum and then regulating the effect with a layer mask, so it will only show up in the areas I want.

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I will leave you a GIF with the whole process on it, so you can better appreciate the illustration process.

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