🤘Good day fellow People!

I am back again, and this is my second time entering the Splinterlands Art Contest (Week 151). This time I decided to so something a bit more artistic, and less design orientated. This week I picked the Death Splinter Nightmare card as a subject/inspiration.

Original Splinterlands Nightmare Artwork:

Creating the art

First off, this digital painting was created in the fairly new Adobe Fresco software, on a Wacom Intuos Pro Paper Edition L. I have only recently gotten into digital drawing again, and it is by no means my strongest skill, but I am trying to learn as I go.

☝️Step1 - Reference and Rough Sketch

As always, I started off by gathering some references of The Google. In terms of the reference art, all rights reserved to the original artists for their great art, and I am always thankful that there are so many great artworks out there to reference.

I started out by drawing the basic horse face shape, and then added the skeleton bits, filling it out as I went along. Apart from it looking a little bit "doglike", I was fairly happy with my initial sketch.

✌️Step2 - Colour layers

I added some basic background colours, and then slowly started to expand my colour range to create some depth. I always try to use a wide range of dark and light tones, thus getting some pure white, and pitch blacks to create some nice contrast. I am very much still learning, and I fair amount of experimentation took place in regards to brushes, effects, layering and colours.

👌Step3 - Cleanup, resizing, and the final result!

Lastly, I did some basic line cleanup, although I decided to leave some of the initial rough sketch, as it really added to the texture of the image. I merged some layers, and did some resizing, and thus ended with my end result. And here it is, hope you like it!

👋The Bonus

Adobe Fresco has a great little feature where it gives you a time-lapse of the sketch. I exported it and have posted it on Youtube for those of you that are interested in seeing the messy process. Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for reading!

Comments, questions and critiques are always welcome.
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Have a wonderful day.
SkippyZA ^_