Splinterlands Social Media Challenge!
Hello guys and welcome to my blog😋. I hope everyone is having a great day. For this week I decided to draw Time Mage as my entry for this week's challenge. Yesterday night was quite peaceful and no one was there to disturb me so I completed this artwork by 5am today. Who cares about sleep, right😂? I don't even feel tired anymore XD. I think I'm turning into nocturnal being like Batman (excluding all his impressive qualities🤣). Well, here is the result and I hope you guys enjoy the process below!
Time Mage
The process...
From the work in progress shots its very clear that I did something different with the colour scheme of the character. Aside fome that I wanted to create the lineart for this painting close to anime style. It's been a while since I did that most of my recent paintings were created in a way that makes the character look older. I wanted to bring that teenage aspect so I drew this to satisfy that condition. After I was done drawing I was happy with the results so I proceeded to paint it.
I painted the base colour first and decided to finish the eyes in the beginning. Her eyes are quite different. Highlights had a significant impact on eyes like this. I kept that in mind and painted accordingly to make it pop. I hope I did justice to her eyes. I also added some patterns inside her eyes as well to create an aesthetic feel. Plain looked very boring and I didn't want to copy the original design so this is what I made. This was done pretty fast and I started shading the face. I decided that it's best to shade with vibrant colours because I noticed that some of my recent paintings used dark shades. I wanted to make something fresh so I experimented with the colours and I got some great results.
I rendered the face with 4 layers of shading and applied a 4% Gaussian blur to it. The best part about rendering the face was adding those highlights. After I applied them on the highpoints of the face the face looked much more aesthetic to me. Once I was happy with that I moved on to rendering the hair. First I painted the basic shape and then I added some strands here and there to make it look realistic. Her hairstyle is very different so I decided that it's best to turn off the lineart while rendering the hair. I added highlights and shadows on necessary ares to show the flow of the hair and the direction of the light source. Then I turned on the lineart and erased all the hair lineart. I think it looked better this way.
Painting the armour, clothes and the background were the things that's left to do. I didn't waste any time and proceeded to render the armour first. Metals in a light source shows strong contrast so I painted the shades and highlights accordingly and applied a Gaussian blur to it at the end. I did this from my memory and I'm happy with the results. The cloth areas were small so it was completed under a minute. It was also shaded according to the direction of the light source.
If you notice the rough sketch on paper, you'll see that I didn't draw the hands fully. I had an idea but I didn't know if it will work or not because I haven't tried it before so I decided that iwas best to do it at the end and if it it works then great otherwise the plan was to finish drawing the hands fully. Since she is a Time Mage the idea was her generating her body and to create that effect I choose the hands. I painted it in a way it looked like it was she was creating her body out of thin air. The glow effect I applied here helped me achieve that goal. The background is made with the character's colour palette but in a blurred state. Now I can't finish the painting without adding some elements of time in there, right? So I added the Roman numbers in the background in circular form imitating a clock. I turned overlay mode on this layer to blend it with the background colour. Now the painting was finally complete and ready to be shared with hehe.
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Official Design
✨Result✨
Tools used: Ibis paint x, Notebook and Pencil
Duration: 6hrs
Thank you so much for your time 😇
