Splinterlands Art Contest Week 314: Coastal Sentry

This is my entry for the weekly Splinterlands contest found HERE

Here is the original card art:

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

https://rumble.com/v5hhlh9-coastal-sentry.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 with a thin G-Pen in black

Step Three: Flat color layer. Hide the rough layer and mostly used the Fill Paint tool for the base color layer

Step Four: Shading! Made a clipped multiply layer and just filled in sections with two shades of grey. Also added an outline of pink to the entire layer to create the shadow terminator

Step Five: Made a Lighten layer over the shading layer for some reflected light highlights

Step Six: Dunk her underwater. Just started with a gradient layer in the background then moved the paint around with watercolor brushes. Also made a layer on top with some white watercolor splashes to make ocean currents

Step Seven: Sign it

Step Eight: Profit!

Thanks for scrolling all the way to the end.