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King of Cups

I am a messy painter and I often adjust and change the designs as I paint. (Mostly because I don't have the patience to do proper line art haha)

I start out with a rough sketch, I usually sketch ideas out on my ipad and move to my cintiq to work with colors.

Next I block in rough color thumbnail. I keep this part messy as I just want to figure out the value structure and the overall mood.

At this point, I have collected a myriad of screenshots and reference images from the game, pinterest, and also from artists work that inspires me.

With the references on one screen, I start to paint the details, I work from foreground to midground to background. (Sometimes I'll bounce between the depth when I get bored from painting one thing for too long)

Sometimes after I block in the colors I'll make adjustments. I didn't like how warped the perspective was getting on the building on the screen right side, so I adjusted the vanishing point and added more tiers to the design. I went back into the game and looked at more how the stairs were designed and figured it out more thoroughly with a sketch on on top.

I think sitting down and doing the details is the most time consuming part. I still want the focus to be on the character despite all the detail going on the background. At this point I'm toggling on black & white filters constantly to check the value, grouping everything in the background together, making sure the lighting frames the subject in focus. At this point I realized, I forgot to paint Astarion's hair LOL, and that the bg was getting a bit too detailed, so I used a more textured brush and painted away some of the edge details of bg buildings.

Last, I make final adjustments, and I make a overall lighting/fx adjustment folder. Adding in some noise, adjusting the contrast, color balance, and lighting over all and call it done!

"I'm a Librarian, but..."

From the shadows they came...

Welcome all, to our little corner of darkness. This blog will showcase anything and everything related to Ombra, a closed species of shapeshifting shadow demons created by Alexia Rosenne. 

What are Ombra?

As I said above, Ombra are humanoid demons created purely of darkness. They have the ability to shift into a creature that helps boost their combat abilities and come in all shapes and sizes. Many have vibrant skin colours and dark patches of scales, but all Ombra are identified by their vibrant teal and blue eyes.  This blog will be where I showcase new members of the tribe as they’re adopted and any and all art relating to them! Warning, a lot of this content will be NSFW, but will keep things tasteful for Tumblr. I will also share lore and concept art of their world, Tenebris.

N7Day 2022

Vyper looking ready for whatever you got-