A big greeting to all the community, this week I decided to participate in @Splinterlands art contest with a card that I think is beautiful, but I was a little afraid because I felt that the difficulty was quite big, however I dared to do it with much effort and love, PEMBROOK NYMPH is a card that has many elements and details that perhaps at first glance are not so complicated, but you notice the complexity when you pay close attention to it, a clear example of this is that I had never noticed that on her hands were some fish, I really saw this image so many times and I always noticed that she had a kind of "power" or something like that in her hands, just today when I was finishing the drawing I noticed the little fishes and I wanted to integrate them somehow because they seem to me a super magical and beautiful detail, I chose to be quite faithful to the original card keeping many of the accessories and elements because I think it is a perfect card visually.
I hope you like it.
I made the sketch in this case making the drawing with a different angle, the body was quite complicated and I was modifying it while I was painting, because sometimes I felt that it was too wide in the back and sometimes the skirt was not well placed.
Anyway, I chose the color palette for the skin and used dark and light green tones, I began to add more tones to give shape and then begin to blur and create a smooth skin.
Once the skin was ready I started to fill in the rest of the drawing starting with the hair in which I put a dark purple base tone and then adding some highlights with a lighter purple, then I painted the clothes, I think it took me more time because I had some problems to paint the volumes and I had to erase several times the top, the skirt was a little easier since I simply had to paint some faint lines of shadows and lights that create the folds of the skirt, the crown was a challenge, but little by little I painted each snail and I managed to give it shape although it was not perfect I feel it is ok, I had never painted snails before.
I put a dark background to continue working a little better.
Until this point I had not thought about the background, but after a while it occurred to me to make a dark and almost gray sky and underneath add some water, so I started to paint both elements and I thought I should put some water in front of her too, to give the impression that her feet are submerged in the sea, I thought I was all ready but I usually zoom the images of the fanart I do to see what details I could lose or which I can omit or modify to my liking, at this moment I noticed the little fishes and I didn't want to leave them out, I took advantage that I had painted water and I wanted to draw them surrounding her, to make them look very magical I gave them a lot of brightness and I darkened a little the image so the fishes would stand out even more, finally I applied a color adjustment where I didn't make so abrupt changes but I wanted to add a little bit colder tonality.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
Foundation: alexa-artx
Rarible : alexaart
KnownOrigin: alexaart
Terra Virtua: AlexaArt
Opensea: alexa-art
Makersplace: alexaartx
Ghostmarket : alexa
NFT Showroom: alexa.art
Twitter: Alexa_Ys
Amo tus creaciones son espectacular. Bellísima adaptación de esta carta amiga. Un abrazo y suerte.
Muchisimas gracias querido @kadoshmenorah
esta impresionante me gusta
Gracias ❤️
esta impresionante me gusta
Amazing work dear, the colours, background and expression are perfect. I see a winning entry, goodluck
Thanks alot dear @leeendah 🤗
Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859

Thank you!!