-Step 1:

The choice of pose was key. I wanted to convey her determination and courage in the battle against chaos. I opted for a pose in which Gargoya goes straight towards the camera, occupying as much space as possible on the canvas. In this way, his imposing presence shines through in every detail.

-Step 2:

I used grayscale to give detail and volume to the gargoyle. The shades of gray gave depth and realism to his figure, creating a three-dimensional effect that highlights his imposing muscular body that is between the naturalness of the muscles and the resistance of the stone.

But the magic touch was reserved for his eyes. I decided to add an intense blue glow in his eyes to reflect his power and magic that now glow with an unearthly energy, conveying his resolute determination in the fight against the Legion of Chaos. Although it was really to make it look cool the touch of color in the midst of so much gray. 😅

-Step 3:

For coloring of course I used the "color" fusion mode, with this I could color quickly and effectively the body of the gargoyle without altering the work done in grays, also I could experiment with different illuminations of other colors, but I wanted to stay attached to the dark violet tone that originally has this character in the Splinterlands cards.

-Step 4:

I wanted to focus most of the detailing on the monstrous face of the gargoyle, so I proceeded to improve the horns and give them a more vivid color tone and according to the magic emanating from his eyes, in the original design there are rays coming from his glowing eyes, this of course I was going to capture it in my fan art, so with a white color I designed the path of the rays, to which I then applied the effect of "external brightness" to illuminate them quickly of the blue / violet tone I wanted.

-Step 5:

So far the work on the painting was almost completely finished, so instead of spending a lot of time rendering every inch of the illustration and smoothing every brushstroke, I wanted to focus on improving the lighting, for that I first mixed everything in a new layer and proceeded to play with the filter options of Camera Raw, giving it more contrast with a little vignette on the edges, applying a little more saturation and other little things that I was playing with, also with the "hard light" blending mode I assimilated the brightness of the rays, including the new big rays that go outside the canvas. And that was all, maybe I still owe a little detail to the wings, but I have left a close up of the most important details of the gargoyle so you don't have to zoom in.

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I will leave you a GIF with the whole process on it, so you can better appreciate the illustration process.

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