Digital Art: Brothers

Hi guys!

So, I showed my friend what I was able to do with the Medibang app he recommended, and he was pleased. He then asked me to do something based on my own inspiration - not fanart.

This was a tricky one for me, but I decided to give it my all and I chose a memory I was fond of. When I was younger, my elder brother and I would go on walks around the neighborhood, and one time we saw an airplane while strolling.

Don't blame me, I was really fascinated by flying bird-shaped houses back then! 😅

So he pointed it out to me and I remember us both looking at it and smiling, so I decided to make some art of this from a 3rd person perspective.

The Sketch

I set my drawing tool to a size of about 7px and then gave a little rough sketch of what I wanted to see on the final masterpiece in the first layer.

Lineart

In the second layer, I began the Lineart. When I first started Digital Art, I wasn't very confident, so my line art would be rally jagged as a result of using multiple lines. But since then, I've become a lot more confident in my work, and this has shown in my Lineart.

I created this with simple fluid movements, and I guess it was really a success. Also, during the Lineart, I remembered my brother's t-shirt had a design on it - even though I couldn't remember the finer details, I did remember a few things, so I added them.

Coloring

I think I really went for Gold on this artwork - I didn't forget to use layers. I started from the sky, trying to give it a sunset look. Then, I had this medieval vibe going on, so I gave the sun's rays a lot of sharp extravagance.

It took all my effort not to add a little face on the sun 😜.

Once that was done, I decided to settle the clouds by adding the little highlights they would need, and voila!

Then I decided to give the buildings a bluish color. I didn't really want to detail them, but I still wanted to add the effect of perspective and distance, so OI gave the closer buildings a lighter shade and the ones in the background a darker shade, and that brought about the desired effect.

Then I had difficulty selecting the best tone for their skin, so I went on a lot of experimenting until I'd finally found what I wanted to work with and used it.

Highlights and Shading

I was almost thinking the work lacked life until I realized I hadn't added the highlights. As usual, when I wanted to shade, I used the color picker to select the color of their skin and then moved the cursor till I got I slightly darker shade. I then proceeded to color all over the areas of skin.

Then I remembered my brother was hairy - I wonder if he still is, - so I used the drawing tool, set at a thickness of 5px to give small dashes and dots on his left hand to make it look a bit hairy.

It worked, I think.

Then I used the same method for our clothes and then I was done! Enjoy the final masterpiece!