Carmen, Queen Of Diamonds

Very good evening my people, today I want to bring you a work with a magical theme and it is about the Queen of Diamonds, I wanted to create something related to this, until I finally got down to work and decided to paint Carmen, which is a woman who has great gifts in the art of magic; she is known as the Queen of Diamonds because she uses the card of the (Queen of Diamonds) as a weapon, which throws with great force and power to her enemies with the help of her powers of telekinesis:

PROCESS

The first thing I had to do to start my drawing was to try to involve Carmen's character with the Queen of Diamonds card, so I decided to paint her in a pose as if she was turning to throw the card with her powers: I drew Carmen as a slightly mature woman of about 35-40 years old. To begin to give shape to my character I applied the colors each one in a separate layer, the skin for example was the first and I used a very pink tone as a base; for the clothes I used a soft purple base because later I wanted to create several details and so I had a good margin.

The construction of the skin is often somewhat complicated and time consuming, especially in female characters because they are looking for a very subtle softness; but for these cases I like to use the watercolor brush and the airbrush lightly mixed together. First I used the airbrush and over it the watercolor strokes so that they were blending evenly, after that a little blush on cheeks gives that feminine touch very realistic; for the eyes I used tones close to the skin and not white, this because the pure white tones make the eyes look very strange, then for lips and iris I went for much darker and colder tones like purples and blues.

The painting of the dress was not so complicated, but it was a little late because I wanted to give a lot of texture and details that I really like for this type of clothing, I started by softening a little the base of the dress with the airbrush; then with watercolor and a flat tip brush I was creating lines and long-thin strokes to shape some wrinkles or folds that gave realism to the dress. Another final touch I decided to add a diamond pattern to the dress to complement the theme of the character; after the clothes I moved on to the hair, here I didn't get too complicated and decided to lighten the hair just a little when painting the strands of hair.

For the last part I gave shape to the letter of the Queen of Diamonds with a small and fine brush, I used many opaque tones except in the edges of the letter where I created a scarlet red stripe; once the letter was finished I decided to go to the background and with the help of some brushes of rough texture I painted a kind of thick fog in a dark yellowish color. In addition to the mist I also painted some lightning falling from the high part behind Carmen to give it a more gloomy touch; and for the last thing I had to do was to create a kind of purple magic aura around the arm where she holds the letter.

MATERIALS

• Sai Paint Tool Program
• Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet

Well people this has been all for this post, I hope you liked it a lot and as always I invite you to the comments box where I always read them; I send you a big hug and I'll see you in a next drawing.