Witch Breeding (Patreon)

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Christ alive, REALLY late Halloween piece but finally done with this one! For those who don’t know, this is the Witch from the game, Clash of Clans going up against some Bowlers! The differences from the original design were that I gave her legs and visible hair, however I couldn’t decide on what color so I put it to a vote and putting white hair was the winner! Man, this was a butt load of work, which is odd because I know I’ve done things longer than this so I’m not sure why this one was far more difficult. I wanted to pinpoint what the reason was and the only conclusions I could’ve come up with was self-discipline issues, balancing life and work, or probably rendering differences of past projects. Maybe I was being too meticulous with certain details in this? You can definitely notice the rendering deteriorate the further going down which I’m not too proud of at all due to impatience and my anxiety of things piling up.

Again, not sure but I’m becoming more lenient on the self-discipline issues because I felt I was failing on the “balancing act” I was doing with multiple works with art and the works I had to do for schooling and personal life issues and I’m trying to develop a better sense of “focus”. But you’ve heard me yelp that out before so I’m not going to get into detail on that x) Onto aspects of the piece itself, I loved working with analogous colors in this! I recently tried learning different color theories (mostly basic stuff) and I thought analogous was something to definitely experiment here with the witch being purple, her eyes on the pink/purple side, and the bowlers being blue from the game. As you guys know, I’ve wanted to always try to make color finally “make sense” in my images rather than just ironically “eyeballing” it so hopefully I can apply what I’ve learned through future pieces! Not going to be 100% accurate and I’ll definitely stumble across the path but I hope I can display my efforts better.

I guess you can almost argue that it’s split-complimentary as well? Since there are tints and shades of yellow here in contrast with the blues and purples. 1 new method that I tried for subtle texture was creating cross-hatchings for the cloth of the bowlers. Very small and unnoticeable at best, but I felt some sort of tiny visual remarks on that would help rather than it being flat as a board. As for the wetness, I tried studying other styles that emphasizes how “heavy” and “goopy” they were rather than how “real” they were if that makes sense? I’m trying to develop demonstrating more “feeling” into the piece rather than being more so “accurate” with the works since I personally find more appeal in artworks that emulate the excitation and sensibility with exaggeration or changes rather than it being “correct”. But that’s just my perspective and subjective opinion on the matter :o anyway, don’t want to be too rambly in my descriptions since I can make them obviously way too long so I’ll leave it at that and hope you guys like!