Good evening everyone.
Today for my entry to the @Splinterlands contest I chose to draw the Flame Mephit card, I think I had never drawn it and today I felt like painting something colorful, although warm tones are not my forte nor my favorite I wanted to try it since I was feeling in the mood today, it was quite complicated to finish it due to the short time I had but in the end I liked the result quite a lot, something very difficult for me was the hair because it had to look like hair but at the same time fire, I tried not to give it too much realism so it wouldn't look bad, sometimes when we look for perfection we end up ruining something that at the beginning worked well, anyway, I hope you like it.
I made the sketch and started to paint the skin, I rarely use dark colors for the skin so it was a little complicated, I used a range of dark and light browns and started to place lights and shadows, in a new layer I added more colors to give shape to the whole skin, I started to blur these colors to leave a soft skin and at the same time with a light texture, then I applied color to the clothes placing a dark green as a base.
I illuminated the clothes with light green and gave volume in certain areas, I didn't really want to detail the clothes too much, I took care of the most difficult part: the hair.
For this I placed an orange base color and then I started to lighten with yellows and darken a little more with dark reds, I gave brushstrokes until I had a fire texture, for the background I wanted to use a dark tone and then down a dark orange lighting, then I started to paint fire in the front and also some sparks of fire around the image, I added lights in the face to highlight some important areas and finally I edited the image giving it a warmer tone and increasing and intensifying the colors.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro