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