Today I tried my best to finish up one so digital piece I had started late last week. The week even though it’s just beginning has been a bit challenging and I must say that this is the initial motivation I had to make this piece and the others I haven’t posted. If you can recall in my previous Splinterlands entries I talked about how I stumbled on a number of well proportioned vectors on Pinterest and reshaped them to sooth my intent. The reshaping is in no wise easy and takes hours to do but I endure this mainly because the faces have many physical features I haven’t properly mastered. If you look at the piece and that of the vector which I used you would easily notice the difference I am talking about.
The Undead Priest I must say is a personal favorite. It reminds me of the Mummy movie which as a kid my older siblings didn’t allow me see. They told me that I would be so scared and probably follow everywhere as a result of the scare. The sad thing was all my friends at school had seen the three parts and there I was hanging to my siblings’ words. I saw the movie later on when I was an adult and wasn’t at all scared. I felt betrayed truly but kept calm. So years about this time two years ago when I saw the Undead Priest card I was drawn to it. I did one beautiful piece back then. Infact it was the first digital piece I did without a lineart. So, while making this I poured a lot of attention to detail. I wanted to wrap her entirely in grave cloth and make her face skeletony with purple skin. I later changed my mind.
For the background I spoke with my brother Timothy and threw some ideas at him. He picked the one with the priest coming out of a tunnel and I kind of vibed to that too. The tunnel might not be properly illustrated but the idea of it is.
The process....
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