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.

[dirty_diana]

Very dramatic, I love it.

[adafrog]

Very good. Thanks for sharing.

[minoanmiss]

Oh, wow, this has a stained glass clarity.

[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.

[mific]

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

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

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

[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!!

[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.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Love it.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

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