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<h1>HAPPY EASTER SPLINTERLANDS!</h1>
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<strong>"Da special Taku egg"</strong>
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GRRRRRRRRR, i have been roasted by @jijisaurart. Goated to make this SPL post, when looking for art to make. I wanted to train my Background art skills, granted this took me the entire week to make and finally after only doing around 30hrs of drawing. I finally finished this illustration!!!

There are so many good SPL artist. Hopefully i could atleast reach mentions and finally flex it to GIGI.

Tried out drawing kids and angled drawing as well. Hhahaha experimented so much that i might have degraded the drawing by a bit.


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I shall get gud one day!

TO REACH 1st place 

STRONG TAKURI!!!!!

If jiji reaches 1st place before me, i will surrender and make a animation about it.

NOOOOOOOOOO!

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Special Taku Easter EGG!
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Ha, if your wondering about the colored outlines. I finish my drawings 1st before making a post about it. And then just show it layer by layer to reveal my progression.

Granted i might change some stuff here and there to make the drawing look better.


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<a href="https://next.splinterlands.com/card-detail/389/regular/7/?tab=for-sale">"River Nymph from Splinterlands"</a>
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I decided to draw this character because it kinda reminded me of Dark Magician from Yugioh.

Really liked the simple blue and purple color scheme so i decided to go with that as well.

Picked out the cavern setting to give a sense of mystery, since this drawing was started all the way back in march but because of busy busy meeee. I finally finished it after a while.

Underwater, yeahhh since she is from a river. I  made it look like this place is submerged but because the angle i took. The cave seems to be above ground near the beach. Either way it looks cool. YOOOOOOO!

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<h3>Step by step Screenshots because it looks cool!</h3>
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The base colors consist of just simple colors, since its underwater i tried a more pale look. Even though looking at ocean pictures. The sea is a vibrant and colorful place. Welp too late.

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Added the 1st layer of shadows, these go everywhere and mostly act as a filler. Since the light will be coming from behind, i tried i doing backlighting. Kewk it looks bad.

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Using the Wax brush, i added a more bushy and foggy look. Since we are underwater i guess it looks fine. Looking back, i didn't had to do so much fine strokes. A lot of them got lost during the air brush barrage.

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Added the 2nd layer of shadows, this was the point where the background looked more like a lake or river than an actual underwater cave. GRRRRRRRRRR i think muh wave pattern was reversed so it looks like a coast. Welp whatever.

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Added the 1st layer of lighting. Just simple lighter flat colors to act as a base for the 2nd light layer and the effects layer. This is going to be used as a pin to plaster my stuff all over.

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This is the 2nd layer of Lighting, for this illustration i just used simple air brushes, smudges and blurs. The layer itself has a very low opacity but when added to the 1st layer of Lighting it gives a ambient glow look. Of which looks noice.

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The final layer known as the effects layer, this is where i added the light rays, sparkles, and gradients. Although compared to other arts i have made. The gradients basically don't exist.

After finishing up the drawing, i was surprised by how much my skills had improved compared to a couple months ago. HUHUUHUH

Especially the background, the water is sooooo gud. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I really like the part where i input some chibi character like myself or other hivers. Such as JIJI, kinda feels like im making a meme post with lore.

Hhaahhaha i want to make more of this type of art. But it takes too much time. If i do get mentioned. Then maybe i will continue.

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Some cool stuff the happened this week.
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Im currently in a voice call as of this moment with IRL friends. We usually do voice calls and i would be drawing in the background muted. But would unmute when something happens or im done drawing then posting. Which i will be soon!

We usually goof around and do Table top RPG Voice calls. We would have so much fun, especially since 5 out of 5 are complete psycho's including myself.

So whatever we do would always left to bloodshed and war.

No way around it.

Tomorrow we going to play from 1pm - whatever. Sine we all free. HOHOHOHOH

Going to record it using OBS studio and possible use it for material in Animations.

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<h3>Links and Other Stuff</h3>
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Medibang File
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ap9_AwJkLRxiegR6tBSHyGyZQzSEQh9L/view?usp=sharing

Medibang (Drawing program used)
https://medibangpaint.com/en/

Inspiration:

@jijisaurart

Muh Friends

One of them has a pet fish

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<h3>UwU thanks for reading + Other versions</h3>
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<h3>GRADIENT PURPLE AND RED!!!</h3>
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GRADIENT GREEN AND YELLOW
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No gradient "Original version"
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Aight thanks for wathing, im currently working on some logos for a certain someone. Hopefull we will like it tomorrow when i present it to him.

Might earn enough to take a 1 month vacation. I feel so tired, i could only draw for 6-10hrs a day unlike before.

Although i have gotten more and sleep lately. Its just to compensate for the stress i have built up. I need a real vacation soon. Of just doing nothing but playing games all day long.

HOHOHOHOH

Seeya again next time.

Thanks for Wathing

-- Takuri