Original character design "Female sorcerer" (2019) by @djei.art22
Dear friends
In that work depicting a sorceress who protects her forest wealth. She does not part with her magical owl. According to my idea, the main character descends to the top of the slope where a forest animal was killed. Seeing even from a distance an arrow into the animal's body, she realizes that the strangers came. Preparing to defend her home, she revealed the power of her magic stones. These stones give her unprecedented power, which inspires fear even to the sorceress. All because even she can hardly control her. h4
Work name: Female sorcerer
Used: Photoshop
Creation process
Since I really like to draw in my sketchbook, I first made a freehand sketch. After which I photographed it and sent it to Photoshop. After that and up to the last stage of the whole work in Photoshop was made.
Figure 1. Working in Photoshop with a drawing that was made in a sketchbook.
Figure 2. In the first version, there was no dynamics, so I took a step back and made another sketch, but already in Photoshop.
Figure 3. Here I used the basic colors, at the initial stage I always trying to make the light balance as best as possible.
Figure 4. Since I did not save the process of drawing such a long stage, showing the process after deep detail.
I made this stage as practical as possible for me. Namely, at this stage, I used the maximum of my knowledge of anatomy, color, composition, etc. In other words, I did not use references here and everything was drawn from my imagination.
What do you think about this work? Do you like? I didn't really like this result.
I realizing that I can get the most from this female figure. I used references, made realistic brushes for hair, as well as for clothes.
My first big mistake was the use of cold colors for her skin when on the contrary she had to be warm. Also, the anatomy of the face, I also worked with her.
And of course the background, I completely reworked it inspired by the painting of Russian artists of the 19th and 21st centuries. I also painted stones in the foreground without references, there were no difficulties with this.
Final result
I hope you enjoyed my work!
As a participant and the winner of the "Six of the Best" MAP17 Minnow Contest project, I want to say thank you for watching and for all your support.
Sincerely yours,
Andrey Lebed.
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Beautiful <3 Very nice character design, I think you captured the magic vibes very well with the pose and outfit, and I love the colours very much, too :D
Thank you very much, @veryspider :) My first idea was to draw flying magic around her arm, but in my opinion, it could ruin my idea with visual path in the work: 1. Face 2. Hand. 3. Owl I was doing this artwork on my old laptop who doesn't have a good screen with full RGB. For me, it was like a competition to choose the right color when you can't see it :)
Yeah, sometimes it is important to consider design aspects that would undermine the focal points in a picture :) I am glad that you went with this arrangement, I think it's nice that the attention of the viewer is kept on the character.
Colours are tricky~ But you did well here :D Good work !
I love the concept of your work and as in the end you changed the first sketch for a position with more dynamism... Beautiful work and the hair of the sorceress I like very much. <3 <3 <3
I also liked how you applied the colors in addition to the palette you used, you are great @djei.art22. ;)
Thank you, Carmen! Yes, sometimes it's so hard to do a step back. But self-criticism prevails inside of me, and I just can't leave the things that can look better :)
Ahah, It's you're great! you're a highly talented person ;)
Self-criticism is extremely important if we want to improve in what we do, so I'm glad you're like this... you're great, very talented and will continue to grow.
hehehehe thank you, I think I have a lot to learn to be able to consider myself really talented, I hope to learn from amazing artists like you. <3 <3 <3
I totally agreed with you! Indeed! It's you're great and highly motivated talented artist :) We need always learn something and never give up ;) If do you want to talk more about art , this is my discordapp (djei.art22 #6930) :)
Yeah, right. At least armor that doesn't sacrifice mobility ;-)
Ahaha :)
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