Burning Forest - Splinterlands Art Contest #208!

avatar

Looking at the process, I wanted to keep the colors and tones as dim as possible because I wanted the result to be a bit creepy, dark and scary. I needed the expression to be seen and felt in the process, the colors, and the outlook. I guess I was able to keep that dim look from the start to finish.

The lion should have been accompanied or chased by some corpse with the owl flying above it, but something felt off so I just had to leave it with the outlook rather.
And funny how I have left this sketch in my draft for months now, about four to five months to be precise💔😂
I finally got the chance to finish it today. I started working and brushing it up yesterday and got to finish today cause of my laziness and lack of time too.
I wasn't focused and had limited time yesterday that's why I couldn't finish this. Today would have been the same but I made up my mind to get this out of my way for the very last time.
And because I didn't want to miss @splinterlands Art Contest for this week.
So let's see what we got in the work process below.

Work Process

PicsArt_09-29-07.53.54.jpg

PicsArt_09-29-07.55.02.jpg

The trees were one of the things that wasted my time. Four months ago when I started the sketch, I didn't work well on the outlines, I only rushed over it and didn't get some of the trees looking straight or the lines touching each other, so when trying to fill in the colors and paint it, most trees had an overflow of the colors so I had to undo and then redo the tree layer. I literally erased the trees and started all over again. After that, I worked on the black stripes on the Tiger's skin, even that of the owl.

I then worked on the walkway. I sketched tiny stones and pebbles on the walkway and painted the road grey.

PicsArt_09-29-07.55.45.jpg

PicsArt_09-29-07.57.09.jpg

After working on the outlines and stripes with the walkway, I started filling in the corresponding colors and painting the tiger's skin, and the owl too. I also painted the field layout using two different tones of green color on separate layers.

PicsArt_09-29-07.58.46.jpg

PicsArt_09-29-07.52.58.jpg

On the field layout I created, I neatly added grasses to it using a fitting color.
After this, I was left to refine areas I had to refine, retouch and work on some surfaces too.
Then in the last step, I made the owl's feather fall off as a result of the force it applied, trying to fly away from the fire effect I created to burn up the forest.
I also created a moving effect for the tiger to indicate its panicky movement too, from the fire as well.
And then I sketched a few bones from the skeleton of a decayed body

And that was it for the sketch that took me months to finally finish or remove from my draft💔😂. I got inspired by this art some months ago by an artist I met on one of the social platforms.
I hope you like my illustration today.
See you guys around and thank you for stopping by!

IMG_20211210_153831_084~2.jpg

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐲! 𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐀 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬.
𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 "𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞".
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐲
𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄.

IMG_20211210_153831_084~2.jpg

𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

𝑻𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔! 𝑴𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔!
𝑻𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔. 𝑻𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕.
𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒏-𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒖𝒑𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒔. 𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 :)

             29 September 2022
                   @
                Thursday

20220101_002659_0000.png

art illustration neoxian diy build-it cent splinterlands pob creativecoin vyb
0
0
0.000
9 comments
avatar

Hi Zelly, there are several details that I liked in your illustration, first of all I have to say that I found it super interesting that you will represent the movement with diffusions and out of focus; Just like in photography, I think it's a very daring and unusual combination of techniques.

On the other hand, I don't know if it is precisely what you wanted to represent, but despite the fact that this piece is related to Splinterlands, it conveyed a very thoughtful message to me about how human activity affects other species and how we damage the habitat of others to make our own.

Without more to add, I simply say goodbye congratulating you and saying that I really liked it and your work came to me.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hi Zelly, there are several details that I liked in your illustration, first of all I have to say that I found it super interesting that you will represent the movement with diffusions and out of focus; Just like in photography, I think it's a very daring and unusual combination of techniques.

Oh thank you for this, I appreciate your kind words.

On the other hand, I don't know if it is precisely what you wanted to represent, but despite the fact that this piece is related to Splinterlands, it conveyed a very thoughtful message to me about how human activity affects other species and how we damage the habitat of others to make our own.

Actually it's kind of sad when some times we tend to eliminate the habitat of others to build ours like you said. I love how you related my art to this and the message you drew from it, so impressive😊

Without more to add, I simply say goodbye congratulating you and saying that I really liked it and your work came to me.

Thank you dear. I hope to see you around and thanks for stopping by with such thought-provoking comment.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Well dear Zelly, I think that if you are going to comment you should take the time to express to the author a true appreciation of how the work has reached us, what it made us feel and if the artist is good (as in your case) extend a well-deserved congratulations .

I like to bring other people words that motivate them and not simply tell them "good job" or "your work is very beautiful", that can be done by anyone and those comments do not motivate or help the artist to know what ideas, opinions or feelings he was capable of to generate your work.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You are right dear and such comments you have mentioned aren't always encouraging and I am glad to hear someone else thinks the same and knows how well to connect with an author and pass the message to them and let them sincerely feel their words and thoughts through their comment.

Thanks once again.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Congratulations @zellypearl! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s):

You distributed more than 20000 upvotes.
Your next target is to reach 21000 upvotes.

You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

Check out the last post from @hivebuzz:

Hive Power Up Day - October 1st 2022
Support the HiveBuzz project. Vote for our proposal!
0
0
0.000
Reply