Splinterlands Art Contest | Lira the Dark 🥷

How are you all doing? I wish you a very peaceful Wednesday. My day is going great, the sun is out right now which is a good thing because it has been raining for days now. I spent some time yesterday creating a fanart for the splinterlands contest, I think this is the first time I'll be doing this card. Lira the Dark is a cool card, the dark clothing and blue glow really drew me in, I love the hint of red too...

For this round I already knew I would be doing a close up work so I went ahead and did the sketch, had a little trouble with the clothing but figured it out. I painted her skin and clothes, this was quite fast since it was just the base. I painted her hair too, initially I painted purple hair just like in the original character but it didn't look so good so I erased and chose a darker blue. I painted her facial features and still maintained blue as an eye colour, I didn't want to make a mess with too many colours....

For the rendering phase, I started with her skin and this was quick since it was just her face, neck and chest. Moving on to her clothes, I selected some little areas with the lasso tool and painted black over them to imitate folds, I also painted some areas with a lighter blue colour and it looked good...

I added darker colours on her hair especially at the very top, I then added little strands of hair for more details. One thing I admire is how the original character is adorned with jewelleries, I love the placements and the overall look so I added some on the neckline, around her head, and other parts of her clothes...

Finally, I worked on the background and added the red effects around her. I painted some glow on specific parts of her clothes, her hair, brows, lashes and background too...