Week 238 | My Splinterlands Art Contest Entry | Elven Mystic

Hello, Summoners! ✨

How is everyone? 😌

Have you seen the new card? I do not know a lot about the card but based on the character design, it is so cool! Zyriel is like a dark and powerful character. 🥰 I might make a chibi version of her in the social media challenge. 😌 I am excited about what Splinterlands has more to offer!

This morning, I also put my cards for rent, hehe. I got them by winning here. I have very small knowledge of playing SPL, but I am always here to support the game and the blockchain.

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For this week's entry, I chose Elven Mystic in my art style! 🥰

Source

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Sketching and Lineart

I first made a concept by sketching. I looked for a hooded reference first on Pinterest. What I am picking up from the card is that the character has the power to revive dead birds ???. Not really sure what is going on there. 🤣 Looks like a cult ritual. So I put some candles on the background and later on the front.

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The yellow jacket reminds me of the movie E.T. 🤣 I chose a darker yellow for the inside of the jacket. Why purple hair? Because why not. 🤣

I then colored the whole character with gray color and played with the shadowing for my guide. I saw a lot of artists do this, haha! I think it is nice to see the overall shadowing before doing the coloring.

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Now the eyes are challenging because they have to be expressive. It is hard to get the expression that I want here. I change it twice just to get to this one. I put some cyan blue glow on the pupils and on the lashes. I know put the glowing freckles on the face. I put a darker shade to make them seem more. I put shadowing too on the nose, lips, body, and hands. The chain came from the idea of the card's feet. I thought of putting on the arms instead.

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I put some shadowing on the yellow jacket for dimension, though, most of it will be covered by the candles. More glowing circles in the background. 😌

Final Art

A lot happened here. 🤣 I made a single candle and copy and paste them to fill the frame. I tweak some candles so that it is not too much identical to each other. I add some of glowing swirls on the hand and on the back. I added more glowing circles near the hand. I darkened the corners to make the glows more visible.

~TADAAA! FINISHED ART! 🕯

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Thanks for reading~ 💖
Software: Clip Studio Paint Pro

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