Emilianna, A Stormy Balcony Night

manuel2395 (58)Memberin WORLD OF XPILAR • last year

Good morning my people, I hope you are feeling wonderful and I welcome you again to my blog, today's work is one that I titled: Emilianna, A Tomentose Night on the Balcony. Here I focused a little on using a new color palette with shades a little more intense than usual in my drawings, and I also wanted to try some details of textures in many areas:

PROCESS

Well to start drawing the first thing is always to try to define a concrete idea, for this character of Emilianna I had in mind a character and above all a scenario that complemented each other very well; that's why I decided to go for the idea of the open balcony with Emilianna leaning on a wall. Once I was able to create that lost and sad look in the character, I could focus on painting everything very well.

The base color for the skin was one with a tendency towards intense reddish tones, then for the clothes I concentrated on painting a very casual outfit with a dark blouse and light colored jeans; after having all the base colors well applied the next step was to define them. For the skin I used many different colors to create a good volume and with the help of the finger brush I blurred a lot these colors to get a very very soft skin like a woman's; then for the details of the face I decided to use shades like green, for example, to give the eyes a much more striking appearance and above all contrast with the other cold and dark colors.

As I told you before the idea of the dress was to be something very simple and without so many complex details, so I was giving details to the short blouse with a little lighter tones, this with the firm idea of creating some small wrinkles or folds more realistic; then I continued with the painting of the pants, for this I used many flat brushes and textures of (Sai) to create a much better appearance of jeans. For the hair I had very clear that it would be a yellow tone to create a very smooth blonde, but at the same time quite fluffy; the next thing I did was to use split end brushes to detail the hair better.

For the final part I only had to concentrate on creating the painting of the balcony, I knew it would be an open balcony, but I was not sure how to detail it, so I tried many colors to create a balcony wall with a rocky appearance; I had to paint several times this section until I finally managed to create a rocky brick wall, very much in the style of a fantasy castle. Then I only dedicated myself to build the night behind Emilianna, for this I painted some dark clouds, and finally I added a couple of lightning bolts as if a storm was about to fall; as a final touch I created some tears flowing from Emilianna's eyes and I think it was the special and definitive touch to conclude my drawing.