✨️Itzamara-kun✨️

First request I managed to do ! God, I missed drawing Klaro in the Helluvaverse, and I'm very glad with how my style seemed to get a little closer from the show !

Itzmara © Itzamara-kun

First of all, thank you! Ahh I'm not as descriptive with words, so let me give you a quick rundown.

Once you have your base and all is good to go, you create the gradient in the direction of where your light source is (up -> down in the image). The direction will always depend on angle or 'curve' of the metal/material you're trying to work with. Up top, I did a downwards reflection since my shape is more diagonal, rather than uniform and straight. There are times you'll have a round shape, in where this time you'll go ahead and create the highlight at the apex of it. Next, you have to decide what KIND of highlight you'll be using. I usually work with multiple lighting layers, but for this example I'll only show 3. The DULL lighting is just regular low lights that show the texture as reflective, but is most likely AWAY from a light source and/or is reflecting off something that doesn't have much shine. The NORMAL is your regular highlights that is usually just a lighter shade than your base. Since most if the time it just follows your low light(think of it as the intensity of the reflective light source), you can just place it on top of the DULL lighting. The HARSH lights are only portion that are directly in front of the light source OR are the most intense parts of it. Think of it as extreme sunlight etc, and it goes apart from your regular highlights. Lastly, you can add more color to you material by taking in other reflective surfaces, specially those with different color. I added the blue as an example and just color the panel that directly faces it.

I was thinking a lot about Altruis the Sufferer and my Man'ari shaman Naiarah, two characters I loved and wrote together when I was a kid, 14 years ago.

She defected from the Man'ari and she is helped him around Outland, so when she speaks, she is talking both about his "betrayal" of the Night Elves by joining Illidan as well as his betrayal of Illidan and the Illidari by being part in their murders - something she is well familiar with for betraying both the Eredar/the Draenei and then also the Man'ari.

Bonus: Nethrandamus is not taking sides in this 🙄