Splinterlands Art Contest

Another week and opportunity to be a part of the Splinterlands Art Contest.
Congratulations to last week's winners, y'all are the real MVPS.

Continuing with the fire series I decided to work with

Yodin Zaki interesting option right
Well let's get down to it.
Process

1- sketch and line art: I figure out a pose, I sketch out a couple poses and settle on one. And then I move on
to lineart, for this one I wanted to give this piece a little of that comicy vibe like a page from a comic book. I ink some places black to serve as core shadows.

2- flats: after the lineart I paint in the flat colours, I colour within the lines of course.
3-shadows: after the colours I paint in the shadows. As usual I use darker colours of the existing flat colours to do this. I keep the shades and shadows real simple for I wanted to keep the comic style on the piece.

5- Now it time for the background: again, very plain and simple. A gradient between dark red and black colours, I paint in the fire at the back of the character and then I add some speed lines really give it that comic book look.

6- Next, I go to the lineart layer, use the laso tool and select the hand in the front perspective and then select filter effect and then I motion blur it in, this gives it that real speed like vibe in the comic books. I then do the same for the auras layer too

And then I open blending options on that layer, I go to outer glow effect and with some adjustments it give the auras a glowing effect.
After some fine tuning here and there, the piece is finished. I had fun doing this, it was fun to go back to doing comic style art after a while and I'm satisfied with how it came out.

This piece took 3 hours total work time on both Krita and Photoshop.
I used Krita for the main work on the piece and photoshop for the effects.