Splinterlands Art Contest - [Young] Divine Healer

Welcome to my Art blog, I'll be participating again in the weekly art contest of Splinterlands, and for my entry this week I choose the Divine Healer in which I turn into a younger version of her.

I started with a rough sketch using this pose reference here. I then proceeded to fill in the base colors. I wanted the light source to be on the back of her, to have a rim light effect so I added a multiply layer, filled the whole character with black, and erased the sides. I then painted the shadows of her body and also made a line because the bold lines of my rough sketch made me confused.

After painting and applying the general lights and shadows, I started rendering the details. I blurred some shadows that need a smooth transition, it is the shadow formed by the change of direction and for the cast shadow, it should have sharp edges. I also painted a hint of orange in a Hardlight blending mode on the terminators giving them beautiful warm transitions. And for the rim light, I used the airbrush and used a smudge to soften the edge of the stroke. I drew her a pendant which has a symbol of a leaf in the center since according to lore the Divine healers used medicines synthesized from plants. When I finished rendering I thought there was really something wrong with it so I tried flattening the image which merged all of the layers just learned this today XD) and adjusted using the liquefy tool and here is the result...

Thank You for your time! Happy Weekend ~💖

Tools:
💾 Krita
🖊 XP-Pen Deco Mini 7