Splinterlands art contest | Vera Salacia 💙💛
Hello community, today I wanted to participate in the @splinterlands art contest with something that I love to do: portraits, this time I chose Vera Salacia card, I chose this card because I thought it was great to be able to develop it in a different way, but keeping her essence, where the blue tones and her clothes resemble the original.
For this drawing my idea was to make a realistic portrait, but trying to keep the original costume a bit, for the background I wanted to simulate water around her as if she were floating on the sea, for this sea, I drew many lines with different shades of blue and white making it look quite similar to the waves in the original image, I also wanted to include a bit of yellow so I drew a kind of makeup with some yellow and blue tones, this combination is not one of my favorites but this time I loved using it, makes quite an interesting contrast, I hope you like my version of Vera Salacia 💙💛.
To start, I made my sketch, I only made the sketch of the face since I made the lines of water around her and it confused me too much when i was painting, so I decided to paint all that after guiding myself by the shape of the original waves, I chose a color palette of skin tones and I began to paint the entire face and arms, in a new layer I began to mix the tones creating the face with a soft texture, for the clothes I chose tones similar to the original but taking slightly more desaturated tones, as a base color for the hair I chose a light blue.
I began to paint the clothes with other dark and light tones and then take care of the rest of the details of the fase: drawing the eyebrows, eyelashes, and fixing the textures of the face a little more, for the hair I used different shades of light and dark blue to give it movement to each strand of hair.
Now I started to deal with the background, first I applied a blue base tone and then a little darker blue in the corners, in a new layer I started to paint dark and light lines that simulate the texture of this water, I applied more color to the face and eyes, making her eyes brighter.
Apply more lines to the background using white and light blue, and on top of the whole image place a layer with the effect of “overlay” and an opacity of 50% use a dark blue tone and erase part of this layer making it surround her silhouette to simulate that she is "sunk in the water" to give this water more realism, paint the corners that i erased with a little white, make small points of light that simulate the water making contact with her skin, also paint some waves around her, finally apply a layer of "screen" making small points of light on the face, eyes, skin in general, now apply a color, intensity and saturation adjustment on the entire drawing to make it look more impressive, i noticed that this card has some purple tones, I love to use purple with blue so I added a soft purple highlight in one corner of the drawing.
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
Dang I love this🤩! Those blue eyes looks gorgeous with that yellow shade on the sides.
Thank you so much 🥰
Stunning! The water looks much more like lightening lol.
lol yes, it was quite difficult to achieve a realistic texture for the water and at the same time make it look like the waves of the original card, we could say that it is luminous water 😂
Thank you dear 💙
Yeah it does look like the waves of the original card.
Luminous water indeed 😁
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Via Tenor
Thanks!! 🍕
woaaah💯
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Wow, very beautiful (so well made), great job!
Thank you so much @pegarissimo ☺
Tus dibujos como siempre hermosos y con esa profundidad en la mirada que me encantan.
Simplemente un gran trabajo @alexa.art. 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻🌛🌞🙂🤗🙏🏻🙏🏻
Aww muchisimas gracias!!! 🥰
The blue tones look so good, love how her hair floats on the water , welldone
Thank you 💙💙
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I love the whole process you do, I would like a tutorial on how to draw believable human figures (I need it lol).
Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859