Mischievous Mermaid Splinterlands Weekly Art Contest

Hello! How are you? For my entry for this week, my subject is Mischievous Mermaid I was into green skin characters last week so my subject is green too. I feel like getting sick, my family is all sick and I am the only one who surviving this pandemic happening inside our house LOL.

I started with a light sketch by using a marker details brush. This part is very important this part tells you where the proportion of the face and body. Tips every sketch I did I mirrored the canvas so I could check if the proportion was right.

To achieve this clean lineart what I do is I lower the opacity of the sketch adjust the stabilization of the brush to prevent shaky lines and then carefully draw the lineart. After that, I hid the sketch and now I have a clean lineart.

Next, I select the shape fill as my brush and then I adjust again the stabilization of the brush and then I start adding the base color.

I like to add texture to my canvas so I add one what I do is I add a fill layer and then select a pattern I choose default paper and next I adjust the opacity to 30% and for the final step I set the blending mode into soft light now I have a textured canvas. After that, I started the first layer of render using the Airbrush Soft.

After that, I added a darker background and started adding the second layer of render.

The next thing I did was lower the opacity of the line art so I could render it clearly and then I started to fix some parts that needed to be fixed.

For this part, I started to render in details what I do is I render the hair in detail using a rake bristle dry brush to make the hair more lively and more flowy.

For this part, I turned off the lineart and added more details on each part.

For the final step, I added a background with a glowing design.

Materials:

Gear: XP-Pen Deco 1 v2
Program: Krita
Duration: 5 hours

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