Drawtober - day 3 - Ophis, old & thurisaz

[amberdreams]

Failed to hit the mark with Drawesome's prompts but I managed three others so yay!
SPNtober's old is a bit of a scrabble but the legend of Thor going fishing and fighting Loki's child Jormundgandr is pretty ancient so I'm counting that. Nikolas_tower's Obscurtober's prompt was ophis, which is about snakes - hence the World Serpent, and thurisaz is Thor's rune, for Jonas Lau Markussen's Futharktober, both on Instagram.









I forgot to take in progress pics, but bascially I sketched in pencil in my Mossery sketchbook, inked with a 0.05mm fine liner, then watercoloured over the rest. Oh and I tried masking fluid for the lightning but it didn't work that well. I should probably have used white ink instead. So I added a bit of white digitally. My watercolours are all handmade ones by Kwartscreations, and they have some fab granulations.

Comments

[goss]

Oooh, great piece! And that snake is cool! I really like the movement of the linework you used to fill inside - it really gives it that sinuous feel. :)

Sucks that the masking fluid didn't work out for the thinner streaks of lightning, but at least you were able to do it digitally afterwards.

[amberdreams]

Well most of what you see is the blobby masking fluid, but I added some of the finer lines digitally. LOL

[dirty_diana]

Very dramatic, I love it.

[amberdreams]

Thank you!

[adafrog]

Very good. Thanks for sharing.

[amberdreams]

Thank you!

[minoanmiss]

Oh, wow, this has a stained glass clarity.

[amberdreams]

I hadn't thought about that but now you mention it, you can get glass with all smoky colours - cool! Thank you!

[mekare]

Oh wow what a fantastic piece! The colours in the background stand out to me particularly, such a great combination and nice wet in wet effects. The combination of all those prompts into one piece is very neat too.

[amberdreams]

Thank you! I'm discovering the joys of handmade watercolours - the granulations are fab. I did go a bit mad with using different ones in the sky but I wanted to see how they'd perform. 😁

[mific]

Wow, I love the granularity, the sky and sea are amazing. The knot of the snake's very nordic, too. Lovely!

[amberdreams]

So happy you noticed the snake knot - the guy who's doing the Futharktober is an expert in Viking art!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic. Smashing colours, what an awesome scene. *stares and stares*

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you like it!

[ellerkay.livejournal.com]

OH, this is stunning! The snake looks incredible and I'm just crazy about the sky colors - and all the colors - plus that lighting!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The skies were fun to do, that paint separates out and the smoky effects are so interesting!

[kirathehyrulian.livejournal.com]

Epic Battles with Thor💪🔨 and Jormundgandr 🐍
The background has this dream like quality to it that reminds me of lonely dark stormy ocean dreams I used to have when I was a kid. Gosh, how terrifying would that be if you met a snake that big on the ocean? I don't want to know.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

IKR? To think medieval sailors believed creatures like this were truly out there, and went fishing and exploring regardless - how brave were they?

[kirathehyrulian.livejournal.com]

how brave were they? - Either very brave or maybe very drunk.
I've seen some pictures of those deep sea creatures, I'm not discounted a giant snake creature. We got giant squids in the water and 30ft anacondas on land. Why not huge ocean snakes? (maybe not as big as yours...hopefully) The Ocean is scary and it's like most of our planet. 😱

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Very true, and I think it's still very much unexplored. Never forget the poor old Blobfish, after all...

[kirathehyrulian.livejournal.com]

Never forget.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Love it.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i really like the lightning! the sky is also pretty fab - very dark n' stormy.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I did have fun with that sky. 😂