Naga Warrior Splinterlands Weekly Art Contest Entry

Hello, how are you? Happy Friday! The weather is cold today, and it is the perfect time to draw for my entry for this week. But I guess it is too cold for me to use the big electric fan LOL. I feel like I am on vacation in Baguio. I guess another tropical cyclone is coming to the country again.

Even though I am fighting for my life, not to just lie in bed for the whole day, just scroll through social media, I just inspired myself to just waste it finishing my entry. And I recently observed that I am more motivated to draw when I listen to some of the podcasts on YouTube. I just like listening to something. Whenever I get a break from digital drawing, it is like when I decided to come back again, it is me drawing like a newbie again LOL. Mind you, it's just been days or a week.

By the way, for my entry for this week, I drew Naga Warrior. I like her hair color and the confidence she is giving me. It has been a week since I drew something, so I am pretty excited to draw again.

For the line art, I go for the simple one, because she has a half-snake body. I just added it as her background to make it seem that she has a snake body. I used marker detail for the line art.

The next process was adding the base color. I used the shape fill tool brush for this part, and to make the base color cleaner, I adjusted the stabilization of the brush, because whenever I open the app, the stabilization will return to the default one. And filling the canvas with light gray makes it easier to add the base color.

For the next part of the process, I still use the shape fill tool brush to add the shadows and highlights, which I usually do. Doing this makes it easier to render later.

For the next part of the process, I start to blend the shadows and highlights I added earlier. What I do is I use this filter, Gaussian Blur, to blend the harsh outline of the shadows and highlights. And I like adding texture to the canvas too, it is a ritual for me to do. It is like embedded in my head to do that LOL.

Because I am not dependent on the line art so I just turn it down to 20% opacity. In this part, I will see which parts need to be fixed and some of the imperfections in them. It looks like it is rendering right, but just trust the process. And I added the background design, it is not done this time, but I have an idea what I am going to do with it.

For this part, the character is cleaner and more well-rendered now. For this part of the process, I added more details to the character, and I made the shadows and highlights more intense and more blended.

For the final process, I added more intense shadows and highlights, and then I decided to darken the background color, and then I added more details to the character too. And because her power is water, I decided to add it as her background design, and I decided to add it in front of her.

Thank you for visiting. See you on my next blog. :D
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))

Materials:

Gear: XP-Pen Deco 1 v2
Program: Krita
Duration: 5 hours

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