Mermaid Collector | Original Digital PAINting | [eng-esp]

Que tal, como estáis maigos de Hive. Espero que estén bien.
Hoy les quiero mostrar mi mas reciente obra. Una ilustración de una sirena coleccionista.

Hello Hive friends! I hope you are doing well. Today I want to show you my most recent artwork. An illustration of a mermaid collector 💦.

The idea of this illustration started with a totally different meaning than the one it ended up with. My idea at the beginning was to express something sad, because at that moment I planned this piece, I was not having a good time. It is a very dense topic despite I can explain now, I don't want it to be the main topic of this publication.

I decided to finish this illustration because for a portfolio review I had with the amazing Justin Gerard, his opinions and suggestions gave me a reason to finish this artwork and change the sad meaning and finish it as a studio piece.

Justin Gerard es un artista profesional que ofrece tutorías a través de su Patreon, tiene un canal de twitch donde comparte consejos y los procesos de sus ilustraciones, es un muy agradable sujeto y todo un professional de la industria, lo admiro mucho.

Justin Gerard is a professional artist who offers tutorials through his Patreon, he has a twitch channel where he shares tips and the process of his illustrations, he is very cool and a professional in the industry, I admire him a lot.

He gave me several tips and tricks to have more patience during my paint time and other tips for painting with the use of layers and layer properties; his tutoring helped me a lot and it was totally worth it.

From the beginning I decided to follow the advice that Justin gave me and mix the manga style I have been practicing with the painting style of other pieces that I have already done.

I made a very defined Lineart for this reason.

Justin suggested me to do a previous value study for start the piece, Like this next step.

The ideal here is to start coloring from this study of values, but I still don't know how to do that, so what I did instead is to put colors on the piece and I paint little by little so the lights and shadows are similar to the value study I did before.

I don't think this is the most efficient way to do it but for this occasion I did it this way.

From this point is just PAINting.

An advice Justin gave me was that, when I go into "painting mode" I can play audiobooks, TV series, non-lyrical music in the background, to help me get distracted my brain without losing focus of what I'm doing.

I'm still testing but so far the OST of videogames and SYTHWAVE / CHILLWAVE music have given me positive results.

And this is the final result!

In the end I changed the plot of the story of the piece and decided that it would be something like a mermaid collector of human things that is starting to build her collection, first she started with the shiny stuff, and one or another bone. Who knows what things she will collect next? 👀

Medium:
Size: B5
Digital with Clip Studio Paint 🎨
(Video) Music: Analog Dreams by 23843807.

If you like my drawings you can follow my blog @faffy 🌻
I appreciate all the upvotes and reblogs, that helps me to keep creating. ✨

𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 | 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 | 𝔻𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕥𝔸𝕣𝕥 | 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫

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_{Versión en español: Yo | English Translation: me}

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