Artexplosion, week38 theme: Sci-fi. A travel of the new unknown.

Hello everyone

Here is my entry for the artexplosion week 38.

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This was a very fun and full of challenge to get it just like it was in my head.
I really took the time to work on this, I spent a couple of hours on it for the past 6 days.
While I was making it, I had to work out further details and hoped that they would come along the journey, well they did;)

Here you see some photos of the process:

This was the first sketch that I made on the tablet.

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Although I liked the digital sketch, my feel with this theme screamed paper and pencils, that's why I redid the sketching on paper and started on color.

During this coloring part, I looked up images on the muscle tissue of the human jaw and wanted to give this to my alien-creature.

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Luckily I have some creative stash at home and used my silver shiney paper for the building of my sci-fi alien-creature to give it a cool effect.

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All of a sudden I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of this interesting face, and changed the nose and mounth part.
Here you see I've also added more shades.

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The shiney paper comes in different colors and here you can see the spine turned out to get a copper look.
I also added another silver stroke, that I rolled up a bit so it seems like it's from steel.

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In the sun, it looks pretty cool too.
I have colored the neck now completely.

I added little dots of glitter nail polish as if it are screws of the armour in the face.

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After this, I used autodesk sketchbook to make the background scéne.

I started out by making the background of my drawing black, with the digital proportions included. After that I looked for brushes to make this gallaxy-ish effect. The stars had to be there and I found a way to make them aswel. And what is a gllaxy without a planet? I was inspired by a picture of the /earth and dicited to make it. I add a layer of gray with a synthetic brush and played with different tones of gray. For this experiment,I think it turned out pretty good! You can also see a planet in the distance, I used the form makers brush and filled this in with gradient, then adjusted the colors.

This is what the background looked like without the alien :).

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Again, here is the finished project.

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I want to thank @juliakponsford for the cool theme. I have enjoyed myself so very much:)
Here is a link to the contest :

https://steemit.com/art/@juliakponsford/art-explosion-week-38-theme-sci-fi-25-steem-in-prizes

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I also made a contest, it's called Mermaid Monday contest! More info right here:

https://steemit.com/mermaidmonday/@nymia.aryn/mermaid-monday-contest-week-6-fun-and-prizes-656fc4691a337

Thank you for reading my making of this project. I am very happy with the outcome.

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