Solis - Ennéa Arcana

Hey , How are you! Tonight I want to share with you one of the portraits from my Ennéa Arcana series. The first one I made was Selene, inspired by the Moon. Then came Solis, the piece that represents the Sun 🌞. It was part of the first drop, along with two others and Selene again.  ***She radiates without promising warmth. Solis faces forward, with golden light rising from within—like restrained fire about to bloom.*** For Solis, I had to completely change the base I used for the Moon and adapt everything to the sun’s concept: warm colors, more light, more energy. I started by adjusting the tones and searching for a palette that really felt like pure sunlight. One thing I always aim for in these pieces is texture. I love that style that mimics traditional painting, where you can see the brushstrokes — not quite impasto, because that's another (amazing) level, but I'm still experimenting... and honestly, I'm still learning a lot with Corel Painter 😅. I had a little technical hiccup and lost all my settings, brushes, shortcuts… EVERYTHING. I had to reinstall the program and start from scratch — not fun at all. Still don’t know what happened loool 🤣😵. In Corel Painter, I use a bunch of different brushes (unlike Photoshop where I just stick to one lol). I was drawing this piece live while streaming on Arena and spent quite a while looking for the perfect brush for the hair hahaha — and even though it kinda got lost under all that sunlight later on, it was still worth the try. I recorded a video of the process and I'm figuring out how to share it. I saw you can add links to posts now, but I’m not sure if it works with YouTube, X, or Instagram links. If anyone knows, please tell me!😌 🙏 I like showing little snippets of the process from the video — I feel like close-ups or zooms on certain areas help to show the textures and decision making better than a full step by step, like I used to do. I haven’t really followed a super detailed step by step this time either, but I’ll still show you a bit of how it went. Oh — and something nice: Solis was the second portrait of the series, and it was also sold too 💛. You can watch the whole series [here ](https://skurpy.com/marketplace/collection/KT1VzCquf19VPYm1xLR6fWSxYtdz26QpMqTB) ✨✨✨ -.- *** # Thanks for reading this far! See you in the next post. Hope you have a great night or a good day ✨🌙 ✨✨✨ *** **𝕺𝖍𝖍𝖍 BTW** ============ 𝕱𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖒𝖊 𝖎𝖋 𝖚 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙 ============ 👇🏼👇🏼😶😶👇🏼👇🏼 ============ |[](https://www.youtube.com/@trizdraw)|[](https://www.instagram.com/triz_draw/)|[](https://twitter.com/triz_draw/)|[](https://foundation.app/@TrizDraw)| |------------|------------|------------|------------| ---