Digital Painting: Tikbalang (Werehorse)
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One of the most popular and enduring mythical creatures in Filipino lore. The tikbalang is said to be a half human, half horse creature in the mold of the Greek Pan, that is, having an upper body of a human and lower limbs of a horse: the more popular and oft portrayed version has the tikbalang with the head of a horse while the lesser known version has it sporting a human visage. Both versions however agree that the tikbalang has unusually long, powerful legs that resemble the rear quarter of a horse, hooves and all.
Source: https://www.aswangproject.com/tikbalang/
Photo credits: https://jaymarkmanlapaz.deviantart.com/art/Tikbalang-333915362
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Luckily, my friend @ishanvirtue helped me with my tasked. He draw one just for me. I know. I know. I sincerely asked him if it's okay and he said YES. I'm not taking advantage for this so I informed my professor that I'm not the one who draw this and he approved since it's only for digital art. I will make it up to him and we're already for planning for our next project.
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Now, I will show you my process doing this art.
I. Tracing
- Doing the same thing but this time I'm doing digital painting for this piece. I'm using WACOM Pen Tablet for this process and with a light pixel for the brush
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II. Coloring
- Since it's a mythical creature I'm trying to use mythical or magical colors. So, I came up with these colors.
- I also used a new layer for the colors and place it below to the layer that I used for the tracing part.
III. Shading
Now, I will do the shadow and light part. Since, it's just a sketch and only flat subject. I need to predict the source of light for this art.
- Now, with final adjustments..
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