This is my entry into the Splinterlands fanart contest you can see the awesome artwork from last week here . The Silverleaf warlock is one of my favorite of the conclave arcana cards. Buffing allies with a +1 speed(which is amazing), doing 2 magic damage, and when paired with Kaylia he gets execute. All that for a mere 6 mana. What's not to love? (playing against it that's what)
Since I largely use this fantastic fellow when playing Kaylia I attempted to create a setting that looked like boardwalk up in the trees. I'm not sure sure if I pulled it off our not. (you tell me)
It began with some different ideas. I knew with how much I liked the elf bloodline I wanted to do something with them, and since I'm almost always playing them with Kaylia it'd be something that makes one think of the earth splinter. It's kinda hard to tell what's going on these but it was just me thinking through the different ideas.
From there I started sketching the trees and boardwalk.
From there I sketched in the warlock's pose and the magic, which took me a lot of tries to get a pose I liked.
Then I started working in the colours to figure out what was what. I colour picked some from a refrence but others I just sorta guessed at. I really enjoyed working on the blobby attack guy.
Then I did base colours for the background, trees and boardwalk. I'm pretty happy with the composition.
I started working in some shadows here, I used the same type of purple as the warlocks clothing to keep a sense of connection between everything, and i like to use contrasting colours for shadows and lights. And since the biggest source of light and bright colours is the bright green attack blob, making the shadows purple made sense to me.
I also added some texture to the background to hopefully make it more interesting. backgrounds aren't my strong suit but I think this one worked out okay.
Then I focused on the hand and refining the shape of the attack bloob. Hands are hard and it took me a long while to get this one from 'I hate it and it's horrible" to "Well it's not the worst."
Working on the details of the blobbs face was super fun. Pushing the contrast to make it scarier made me happy. Seriously, love this guy.
I had a lot of fun playing around with different shading, colours and feels while working on the tail? Body? of the warlock's attack.
From there I darkened the background to up the contrast. I also refined the shape of the warlock's clothing and head shape since it wasn't quite right before. Which took me a few ties to get since heads are tricky. With the hair drawin it I found the figure felt a lot more complete.
After that I started working on the details of the face which was, if I'm honest, frustrating. Portraits are not my strength, and I wanted him to look awesome. Doing the clothing was far easier. Working in the shadows in darker and darker purple to make them have depth.
The next thing I fought with was the hand further back. I alternated between the frustration of the hand, and having fun working on the blob attack.
And after that I finally finished the hand and called it done.
Thank you for reading and looking.
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