Hey, Hey, here's the @lacochinaensalsa!

I wanted to share with you what I finished creating today, it is a Fan Art inspired by the Ocean Healer. But ok, this is the cutest and sweetest version you'll see today!

I usually feel isolated when drawing, it's when I have real progress of what I do when I show it to my husband. And this time it was almost when I finished adding the details and creating the background of my character that I showed it to him. And he told me: "Before I thought that there were tools that made the digital drawings that I saw on social networks or similar. When I see everything you do, so much love and how great your drawings can be, I realize how I was wrong. People like you make well-made and well-cared for art..." - When I heard it, my little heart jumped for joy. I love to draw, sometimes ideas of things I want to do swim in my mind, waiting for a free moment to look at life.

The truth is I know that there are many things I need to learn and practice, but when I look back, I can say that I am on the right track. Things happen little by little, "miraculous" ways do not exist.

But...

Addressing the drawing...It's the Ocean Healer in the Chibi version, the cutest possible. I chose a dress inspired by one of my favorite anime characters, Inuyasha. I loved the result, honestly when I started the drawing (3 days ago), I was quite doubtful of achieving it. Because a couple of months ago I was practicing Chibi characters and it made me crazy, I felt like they didn't look good. Even though my husband and close people said they were beautiful. I usually demand more and more from myself, but here I am happy with the result achieved.

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Let's take a walk through the Creation Process of this cute Ocean Healer Fan Art:

I started by making a quick and loose sketch, to get an idea of where and how I will provide my character. That done, I added a new layer and moved on to a cleaner outline, for this stage I wanted to use a rough pencil to get some texture. I have a habit of adding or placing details that are not noticeable after removing the zoom, haha, I still haven't gotten over that. Something like this happened to me with this pencil, but my heart knows it's there 🤣

Having the outline ready and clean. I went to the painting station. For this I usually help myself with the paint can, but in this case due to the texture of the outline, it was not decently uniform. Therefore, I had to do it in some specific parts completely manually. Which I don't dislike, I like to paint little by little too. For the colors I have used my inspiration, the Healer of the Ocean, as a reference.

Once the color stage was finished, I continued with the details stage. For this I used an airbrush and playing with the opacity. I have used grayscale colors for the shadows and from the same palette but in more saturation. In some parts I have used the "blur" brush.

Having obtained the desired details, I started creating the background. For this I have previously given a light blue base and on a separate layer I have drawn lines simulating the lines of water. I duplicated the layer and then set it to Multiply mode, lastly I moved a little and drew the shadow of the character.

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Here the final result:

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For this occasion, it seems to be everything. If you made it this far, thank you very much for your time. Greetings, La Cochina en Salsa says goodbye.

Drawing Program: Medibang Paint.
Translation: Google Translator.
Texts, photographs, screenshots and editions of my authorship/original content.

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