King Darius, A Parent's Toughest Decision.
Hello my people happy Tuesday to all who read me here, I hope you are wonderful, today I come with another of my works, this is King Darius in which is the ruler of a small but famous kingdom called Cashmeer which is known for having the strongest and most battle-hardened knights of medieval times, King Darius is the father of 3 sons who are the best warriors in the kingdom, but the time has come for him to hand over the King's Sword to one of them and for him to assume the Title of King and take the reins of the Kingdom, the 3 sons are 1 year apart from each other and are extremely competitive. King Darius is in a dilemma because although by logic the eldest son should assume the throne, even so, he trusts and has faith in the youngest, since he sees him much more mature and focused and has all the qualities that a good ruler should have, while the eldest is very impulsive; that is why the King must make the best possible decision on who deserves to inherit the legendary Golden Sword with which he will rule the small kingdom of Cashmeer.
PROCESS
First of all, in this work my idea was to build a character that had a certain age and represented the leader of a kingdom in this case, so I created a middle-aged man, about 55 years old or more, with long hair and a fairly formal and elegant dress as you would expect from a King, little by little I was building this character with a new sketch brush that I created and configured a little days ago to achieve a little cleaner strokes. Then came the colors for the skin where I used quite medium tones, I was adding one on top of the other to establish a mix of appropriate colors.
The next thing I did for this work was to continue with the painting of the eyes and for this I used quite intense tones, for the eyeball of the eyes I used a tone of gray much stronger than those I normally use in my drawings, then I worked this section with shades of yellow also a little intense and then layer by layer I was giving more detail to the eyes with much smaller and specific brushes. After finishing with the eyes the next thing I did was to paint very well the clothes of King Darius, first of all, I set a medium red tone as a base for the royal costume and then with smaller brushes and with relief I was giving more detail to the clothes so that it was like what I had in mind.
For the hair section I spent enough time to achieve a good look, try to make a long hair as usually has the kings and rulers in medieval movies, for this I used yellow tones in great variety, first with the airbrush brush then watercolor and finally the blending brush. Finally I moved on to the creation of the king's sword, for this I decided to paint it in yellow tones to achieve the appearance of a sword made of gold, for this I applied the first tones of the sword with flat brushes and then the other tones with layer effects to create that metallic sheen of the sword.
Finally I finished adding several more layer effects to finish the sword as I wanted at first, plus I added some small details in the handle of the sword in dark brown and yellow tones. Then to complement a little the work and not look so empty I decided to paint a kind of wall of the special room where he keeps the Legendary Sword of the King of Cashmeer.
MATERIALS
Sai Paint Tool Program
Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet
This has been all for today my people, thank you very much for coming here and I hope you have enjoyed my work and above all the process of it, as always I invite you to the comment box to go there and let me know your opinion of it and if you like it. Without more to add I say goodbye and send you all a big hello and we will see each other again very soon in a new drawing, until next time.
