Hey so we are back again for Splinterlands art contest. Before i write about my entry and which card i'm drawing today . Lets talk a little about what the contest is for .
Here is the mini Introduction so Splinterlands community hosts an art contest weekly where people have to draw one of their cards in there own art style or something inspired by that card. All arts works dhould be original , Plagirism is strictly prohibited. One Entry per week according to the rules and Be creative original that is all.
Now that we know what the contest is about lets get to the main thing. So this week im drawing a Card called (exploding rats) which reminds me off ww2 when rats were being used as weapons too. So the character is basically like radio active rats that explode , have glowy red eyes , evil grins and they glow from within. You can find This card on Splinterlandscards.com
First thing i do i always prepare a rough sketch of what i wanna draw so here i decided to go with drawing 3 rats with explosion clouds around them. The poses for them were pretty dynamic i wanted to show how they look from different angles. Now that our initial sketch is all ready , lets convert it digitally. For that purpose i used medibang paint pro app which is a androif based drawing app. I import my sketch and i start tracing it all out on different layers with a pen sharp brush (which is a default brush in that app) i did the rats first one by one, then the explosion clouds on different layer and out lineart is pretty much done here .
After the lineart the next thing we need to do is make the nase flat color layer for all characters so i made a gray layer and clipped another layer on top of it for highlights and shadow forst i chose airbrush and a light shade of grey and started painting the parts where the light would hit really slightly. next i chose a darker shade of gray and made shadows and shaded the body and areas that were overlapping each other andd guassian blured it all to givve it a subtle look. Next i needed to make them look. radio active from inside like a glowy yellow thing is in there body .So i took water color wet bush and started drawing blobs with a pale yellow brush inside them and guassian blured that and set the layer to add in laye blending mode. 
i made some more color adjustments to this glowy layer by making it more orange and i made a yellow layer again but lesser blobs so they look like its glowing from within and is about to exolode. I also made their mouths and teeth up colored the mouths n teeth correctly
next i just made a simple brown gradient background to match the scene and filled thee explosion clouds with a base color that was pale yellow . after that i shaded that cloud and finally i colored both lineart layers respectively by alpha locking them.
Next i did se color adjustment and lightning settings by adding a halo of light which ever direction the clouds were.
Lastly i imported my water mark and did some more light and color adjustments and here was the final result. 
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