Entry for Sketch Off Contest -Lady Loki- Edition 2: The Club of Antiheroes

Dear Steemit friends!

The amounts of work I have to do now are insane, but I just couldn't resist participating in @zeroooc's wonderful Sketch Off Contest - Edition 2: The Club of Antiheroes- so here I go!

Below on an Ace of Diamonds card, you have my favourite antihero, Loki!

But portrayed as a girl :)

Pencil on paper, processed digitally just a tiny bit :)

I wanted to recreate the photo of an actor Tom Hiddleston as Loki, as I find his mischievous smirk very appealing. I think he did a wonderful job playing Loki in Avengers. Definitely hope to see more of him in other Marvel productions.

Source of the image

PROGRESS STEP BY STEP

I'm not able to present you with the most initial steps of my artwork, as my progression of portraits is always an extremely messy, erratic & chaotic process, and it's simply almost impossible to document it. I'm always using lots of rubber and redraw the elements till I get the desired look. Below I've captured a moment when I'm almost content with how the face and figure look. The sketch is rough, as I was speed drawing (the contest is closing in couple of hours, so I had to be quick). Besides, I'm an amateur, so... :)

I had to made several corrections to the face. It was difficult to get those lips right. My shading here is symbolic more than realistic. The general rule was to follow the shape of the objects, to make it pop out a little more.

I used my so called bread eraser to get the shine in her eyes.

After some more minor changes to the face and some shading enhancement I decided to leave it as it was. I didn't want to risk overdoing it in any way, and I also didn't have much time to polish it.

At this point I took the drawing to GIMP, and using brush with different sizes and opacity I cleaned the background.

Then I was ready to put my drawing into the card. I chose a funny little card called Ace of Diamonds for my Lady Loki. As you can see my design here is quite minimalist, this has to do with my lack of experience as a digital artist, but I also like it simple. I think it goes well with the pencil texture.

What I did was I created in GIMP a background of a card, making it big enough to contain the card symbols and Loki. I placed Loki in the middle of the card, and then I created separate piece with letter A and the diamond shape, and pasted it twice (once upside down) onto the background. The final result was mostly obtained by the trial and error method :)

Here's a GIF showing the progress of my drawing:

Thank you Nikki for your great inititative! I really enjoyed drawing Lady Loki, as I was recently very worried about my lack of skills and experience in drawing and portraying. I think this entry counts as practice :)

How do you like my antihero, guys? I'm very happy you stopped by! I hope you enjoyed my entry, and as always...

Love,

Klaudia