Hey, community! how's it going?
I just wanted to drop by and tell you about a piece I made recently. Well, more like a week ago IDK time flies. This artwork came out of a collaboration with a user on X. The idea was super interesting: he shared a physical piece made of wood and invited others to interpret it however they wanted and create something new from it. Thatβs how this digital drawing was born.
I worked on it in Corel Painter hmmm you already know I love that program. Not a paid promo (I wish π
), but Iβll hype it up for free because I love how it handles textures. Honestly, it keeps that βtraditional mediaβ feel that sometimes gets lost in digital work. Later, I brought it into Photoshop just for some lighting tweaks and that was it. Almost everything was done on a single layer, like I always do. I know, it sounds chaotic, but it helps the process feel more natural to me.
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This piece is a limited edition NFT 11 copies. Itβs listed at 9.99XTZ. It cracks me up that now there are 9 left at 9.99 Just repeating numbers lol.
Anyway, thanks for reading this far. If youβre interested, Iβll drop the direct link to the piece. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.
# *Have a nice Nite*
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# Thank you very much for taking the time to view my work.
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# *Hereβs the original piece.*
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As for the concept... I had two ideas in mind, but I went with this one. The key phrase that inspired me was: "Iβll hold you even in the storm." I thought it was symbolically beautiful. I didnβt want to go too literal hmmmm like a person hugging a boat or something. I preferred to keep it subtle, more symbolic, so the viewer has to pause for a moment to really take it in.
This was actually my first time participating in a collab like this, and it was a fun (though slightly frustrating) experience. There were a bunch of power outages (a normal day, you know π€―), and one of them made me lose the whole file. It was such a bummer because I already had a version I really loved. So yeah, I had to start over and redo everything from scratch. In the end, though, I think it was worth it.
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I donβt have a step by step this time (sorry π¬π¬), but I did record a process video and itβs posted on X in case you want to check it out. I even pinned it to my profile to make it easier to find.
But here you can see a screenshot of the quick idea I created of what I had visualized in the piece. I made a lot of crazy lines in the original image itself, so I had a sort of rough sketch to work from. As I mentioned, it's more comfortable for me to work this way in a single layer. Although the idea did change a few times as I progressed with the piece.
# *Details.*
In this piece, I've placed several elements, and here you can see some of the main ones I randomly selected.
Some details in the water, the boat, the face, and so on.
As I mentioned, I didn't want to lose all of the texture of the original piece, so I tried to be as delicate as possible, also using several brushes, which also added a bit of additional texture, which is what I was really trying to achieve.
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](https://peakd.com/hive-131131/@yanes94/forest-healer-and-cinelara)
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](https://peakd.com/hive-158694/@yanes94/continuum-seer-splinterlands-art-contest-week-332)
[](https://peakd.com/hive-158694/@yanes94/thalena-protector-of-the-pillars-extended-version)
[](https://peakd.com/hive-158694/@yanes94/thalena)
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