Tears of Sorrow - Animated Artwork

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Greetings! In this post I just wanted to show a quick Drawing I made. This time though I tried to animate it a bit allthough it probably isn't the best artwork to animate, but I hope you like it anyway. I also added the original picture and some people might recognize that the drawing was inspired by this famous painting: "Golden Tears". My artwork shows Rhaella Targaryen and the banner of House Hasty.

Here is the animated version of the picture. I have to say, it looks way more smooth in Video Form and wihout being turned into a GIF, but anyway... Now for the Step-by-Step-Progress to show you how I made this painting. It took me roughly an hours and I used Paint Tool Sai plus a Graphic Tablet. Here is the finished, unanimated drawing.

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I began with drawing the face. I used used one layer for both skin and facial features and added shadows with darker, warm colours and lighting effects by using white and blending it in. Since I planned on covering half the face with the Banner of House Hasty I didn't took the effort to colour and add details to her whole face ;)

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For the next step I added the hair and the eyebrows. To make both look more realistic I used multiple colours from a close colour range and started with drawing single, smaller strains of hair in darker or lighter tones. For her main her I used mainly grey and white and for her eyebrows I decided to go with a more warmer version to create a contrast.

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Next I drew the banner. I used purple and added shadows with darker variants of said colour to make the fabric look more realistic and interesting. For adding lighting effects I used a brigher colour of purple for the violet part and a more greyish colour for the white parts of the banner.

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Last but not leasr did I add even more detail and lighting, especially to her face. Since I wanted it to look dynamic and not as 'flat' I used white and brighter variants of yellow for a warmer look. I then used the blending tool to smoothen the lighting accents and finally added the Luminosity effect. Then I added the tears running down her face. As you could see above did I later animated the picture by giving each foreground, background and middleground it's own depth and made it move like the banner was blowing in the wind and Rhaella was breathing.

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