@daring-celt 21 February 2022

Digital art_2020. Rich the Moon Hi friends! I was thinking: how in the year of the Tiger to do without a drawing of the Tiger? I have such a drawing, of course!

Some days ago I found in internet very nice picture with winter playing tiger. This excellent shot inspired me to create mystical story about night talking an animal and space. http://www.storytrender.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2_CATERS_TIGERS_IN_SNOW_03-683x1024.jpg Or ... maybe, the tiger decided to play with the moon like a ball?))) Sketch in **Paint Tool SAI 2**

Then I started to paint with base colors. I wanted to make a picture in cold shades with warm highlights.

Then I search a direction of light - it comes from above, from the Moon

I want to say I draw in **SAI 2** only some brushes with owner options: **Sketch brush** (very hard, for sketches)

**Oil Rough** (for fill large areas)

**Oil Brist 2** (base drawing brush with changing blend option)

**Ink Pen** (for detalization)

and **Watercolor** (for blending colors)

So... I continue At this step, I want to add depth to the space with clouds in the background, a ripples in the water and shining of the Moon. And I begin to detail the foreground - the texture of the rocks and stripes on the skin of the tiger

I continue my work with a silhouette of tiger, add a realistic stains on Moon and highlight on a clouds

Yes, it's my cloud brush in SAI

I want my tiger to look like a real animal, so I carefully apply strip by strip to his skin.

I detail the muzzle very carefully, especially the eyes

and strong claws

It remains to add a blurry reflection of the clouds to the water surface.

Here's a fantasy scene I got! Yes, finally I added some stars in the sky (*it's in* ***Photoshop***)

Thanks for your attention! May the ruler of the year be favorable to you! With Love...