Finding the Shine in the Cave

Good morning my people, happy Tuesday to all who read me here and welcome to my blog; today's is a free thematic work in which I wanted to mix a little the theme of nature with some character and therefore I decided to create Sarelys. Here you can basically see a young girl whose name is Sarelys, which is a curious and adventurous researcher who is dedicated to explore very inhospitable places and sites, she visits these places in order to find and even discover animals and creatures of all kinds for their research:

PROCESS

The first thing for my drawing was to start sketching all my idea in a basic skeleton, I had the clear idea that I would create a female character, but I was not very clear at first what Sarelys would be contemplating; finally I chose to create a flying horse or (Dragonfly) as it is also known, floating in front of Sarelys while she admires it with deep surprise and fascination. After finishing with the sketch and the outline of my character I could concentrate well on what would be the painting of this, I decided to use a little saturated tones for the skin; for the clothes tones very close to dark tones, and a reddish orange for the hair.

The creation of the volume is sometimes a somewhat complicated process, because there are different types of skin and here also intervene issues such as the age of the character and their sex; and in this case I focused on creating a slightly soft skin with the watercolor brush, with which I can make soft strokes and at the same time mix a little with very close tones. I worked all the skin with the watercolor brush, but varying a little the tonalities towards more intense tones; then I added some blush points to the cheeks with the airbrush, I also decided to use a shade of orange similar to the hair to create the bright eyes.

The creation of the clothes of this character I wanted it to be something special, that is why I focused on creating a kind of dress slightly low-cut at the front, for this I first made use of a gray very close to the dark tones; then with watercolor and a pointed brush (V) I made long and thick strokes to get a good elegant texture. After the clothes I continued painting the hair and for this I made use of a very special brush that allows me to create open and thin lines at the same time, with which I make many long strokes to create the hair in a slightly disordered direction; this is how I achieve that realism to the hair that I like so much.

The last step in the process of my work was the creation of the dragonfly in front of Sarelys, first I created the base body of the animal with a thin and flat brush, then in a new layer I created the wings and for this I had to use a very light yellow tone at very low opacity and I also had to lower the opacity of the layer to 70-65% so that the dragonfly's wings had that translucent appearance that characterizes its wings; an additional touch to the dragonfly was that I decided to add a slight reddish glow emanating from it. For the scenery I decided to create a kind of dark and gloomy cave where Sarelys must have gone into in order to find her.

MATERIALS

• Sai Paint Tool Program
• Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet

Well my people this was all for today, I hope you enjoyed my drawing and I would like you to let me know if you did; a big greeting to all of you and I will see you tomorrow in a new drawing :D.