Hello people, happy evening to all.
Today I have finished with a work that took me a long time but I just freaking love it!! this drawing is my entry for the @Splinterlands art contest this week for which I chose Epona's card, a card that I wanted to draw for a while but I was afraid to do it because I don't draw animals very often and it really cost me a lot to make this horse, but to make my work a little less difficult I decided to use this painting technique that allows me to paint a little more freely, without being perfect but giving a very artistic shape and finish to the whole drawing, I wanted to represent this card in a rustic and rough way, a look that I really like to do lately is with this frown expression, changing a little the atmosphere of the original card where we see two characters that look quite adorable, to paint I used 3 brushes, a difuse brush, one with oil texture and finally a chalk texture brush, which helped me a lot to give this effect as if everything was faded or painting with oil on canvas, I hope you like this version as much as I liked it.
I had this idea in mind to make a portrait, but I still hadn't chosen which card to work with, I saw Epona's card and decided to take the risk finally after running away from her for a couple of months lol, I made two sketches that I discarded until I was left with this one, although I wasn't completely convinced I just decided to trust the process, I chose the colors to work with for the skin, which were of different shades including olive green, cream, pinks, browns, in a new layer I added more colors to give more shape to the face, I placed the base color on the horse and on the dress using for the dress a green tone and for the hair a grayish brown.
I mixed all the tones that I had placed on the skin to give it a better finish but leaving some texture so that the whole drawing had that oil painting effect, I also painted the folds of the dress adding light and dark greens.
I started to give details to the dress by placing these gold ornaments on the edge, to paint the hair I placed a light brown as a base, followed by a blonde yellow, with the diffuse brush I started to shape the horse, applying shadows and highlights.
With the chalk brush I started to paint better the hair adding strands of different tones, for the background I used the diffuse brush and added a variety of colors that would give a different contrast to the whole drawing.
Now I mixed the colors that I put in the background with the chalk brush and also with the oil brush to give it that finish that makes it look like real paint, then I gave more details to the horse with more shadows and lights, using a combination of the 3 brushes that I was using, I finished the horse's skin and hair, now I started to give brushstrokes in all the edges of the drawing, in the edge of the dress, hair, horse, skin, etc. creating this way even more that effect of fading, to finish I gave an editing touch to the drawing to give it a finish with more depth and more colorful.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP- PEN DECO 01 V2
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