Splinterlands art contest week #237 (Celestial harpy)

For this week i wanted to make celestial harpy. From Splinterlands cards and like the character has a female body yet is covered in feathers just like a parade dress from Brazilian festivals .

That's why i firstly made a custom brush for the feathers .You can see my previous blog on how i make my custom brushes .

This was the feather that i drew for the brush.

Afterwards i just took the refrence of celestial harpy on my canvas while on one side i began drawing my lineart sketch .While on my laptop i was seeing some pose models and thats how i made this rough sketch .

Next step as always i filled in a solid color and added shadows .

But this time i also am gonna show you how can you change skin color if its not the color u wanted

For this i clipped a new layer on top of the body and added a pink fill set the layer blending mode at overlay .After wards you can see it turned a very pink skin from Grey just like the character

Next i used my brush to draw her feathery dress and basically i erased and re drew alot here its all about What you cut amd what you re draw

Same way i added the head piece some points i made feathers in the front some in back over all i kept erasing redrawing till the feathers fit . As you can see the brush didn't help like magic i still had to fit pieces by my institution but in end brushes do save you time so that's a pro and a con

Now after the head piece i drew her facial expressions because i would have had to re adjust them if i had drawn before so yeap that's one of the things you need to keep in mind

Added more feathers and made her dress like the tail and hands and knees feather bands as well ass i made her nails too its almost done but we need the wings too

For the wings i just drew a Black silhoute with a pen sharp brush and duplicated it filled it horizontally

After wards i added the. Feathers like a pattern and extras feathers over the edges of the wings

Then i colored the eyes and facial expressions while adding gems to the costume because i wanted to give it that sparkly touch too and the character did have gems on top of her head

Added a sky Gradient but i felt its not that cute cause blue doesn't make her stand out

Drew the clouds too overlay them to the sky layer

As i was not satisfied with the sky i made it a bit pink and purple and yes that looked better

Afterwards added some highlights to her with an air brush and set the layer to add

Next i took a purple square and put it over the whole piece overlayed the layer this blends the character with the background

This was the final look.