Splinterlands Art Contest Week 313: Death Ranger

This is my entry for the weekly Splinterlands contest found HERE

Here is the original card art:

Mine looks more like Angry Aragorn. I wanted him to look more Dementor-ish, probably should have unhinged his jaw so that he looks more like Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Created in Clip Studio Paint Pro on a Microsoft Surface Pro 7+. Here is the timelapse video:

https://rumble.com/v5gpios-death-ranger.html?mref=18dagn&mc=d3obe

And here is the step-by-step drawing process.

Step One: Rough draft. I use a 40 px pastel pencil to block out the rough shape, then refine it a bit with a regular pencil tool

Step Two: Line art. Went with a much narrower G-pen so he looks less like a comic book character.

Step Three: Hide the rough layer and make a flat layer

Step Four: Make separate clipped layers for hair, cloth, leather, metal, and small details like eyes and teeth

Step Five: Shading!

Step Six: Create an overlay layer to add some reflected light

Step Seven: Background. I used AI to generate the background layer, then zoomed way in on a tiny portion of it. I wanted a grave yard with green mist

Step Eight: Added a cast shadow from our ranger and some other mist in the background layer. Also made his axes magic.

Step Nine: Sign my name

Step Ten: Profit!

Thanks for scrolling all the way to the end.