This week I wanted to do a portrait style drawing for the @Splinterlands contest, it was quite complicated to find inspiration for these chaotic days I've had, however, I managed to do just the idea I had in mind, this time I wanted to recreate Angel of light lying on the clouds with her huge wings showing on the right side, I wanted to make a drawing in a “messy” style giving strong brushstrokes and without much precision since I wanted that painting effect, it was really exhausting and for a moment I didn't trust the process haha I had a kind of artistic block in the middle of the drawing, luckily everything came out well I hope you like it.
I made my sketch, then I chose the colors of the skin, this time I used quite warm tones, in a new layer I added more tones to give shape to the whole skin, I started to mix the colors using a hard brush and with a high opacity to leave the skin with a quite visible texture and give it that real painting effect.
Then I painted the clothes, the choker and the hair, I used a brown base for the hair and then orange tones to give it volume and realism, with a hard brush I started to paint the clouds playing with whites and some blues, I also wanted to add sky in the background part, then I painted the wings, with many brush strokes of different shades of beige to create the feathers, I added a flash of light that illuminates the face and then I began to draw small points of light in areas that I wanted to highlight the face, I finished my drawing making an edition where I increased a little the saturation and contrast.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro