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Since I started making drawings for the Splinterlands and its art contest I don’t think I have had the privilege of draw the legendary Obsidian and even if I have, it would have been very early last year just around the time I started making entries. There was a lot of self inflicted pressure from my end as this was the first time I was drawing this card which I admire. I didn’t want to fall short of perfection and as such I took my time in nailing out the details as you can see. There were spots and areas where I did improvise but all the same, I stayed true to the premise.
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The card
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The piece started out with a supposed tracing with my blue ink. This was done as light as possible, as much as my pen could allow. I did this so that I will not miss or disrupt any further progress
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The next thing I did was my usual shading with the Black ink to make firm the already established form. Well, while I was doing this I got carried away with the process so much so that I started shading the inner wear and part of the stone in the card.
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I moved on to shading her staff the little way I could to make it have a semblance with that which I had in mind. I also colored her top black so as to get a dimmer color when I apply the original later. I also shaded her staff or as I like to say “Her Trident”🔱
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I continued the rigorous process of coloring the parts I had earlier shaded and even the eyeballs. It may not be too visible but the eyeballs have two distinct colors.
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Next up I shaded her cape and her pendant. I did this using light Purple and Red pens. The movement was subtle and this gave room for the colors to blend into themselves. You can almost not tell.
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Then the hair was left. It took some doing and patience to cover up this space individually but in time I did.
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The final touch wasn’t out of this world, it was just a recount of the whole piece and some touch up on the face and parts of the arm that had visible flesh. I was tempted to used orange for her skin tone though….but eventually used black
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>The materials I used while making this sketch are Blue, Black, Yellow, Orange, Red and Purple pens.
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You are more than welcome to stop by any time you feel like it. I promise to always keep you entertained with my art.
