My Monster Artwork For Splinterlands - Cerberus in the Moonlight

Hello Guys, I wanted to showcase in this community an artwork I created for the Splinterlands Art Contest Challenge, some weeks back. I've seen some beautiful artwork in this community #sketchbook created by you folks, revolving around Sketchwork, 3d models, and simple Illustrations so I thought that apart from just showcasing mine today, I wanted to bring some awareness onto the splinterlands gaming community where all your talents can go further to create amazing content while earning too!.
Feel free to read through some information I would share further below in the post about this Art Contest. But for now?, Let' me share my artwork with you and take you through the creation process;

Artwork Design Process

STEP 1;

I started by blocking out the body and head structure for the three-headed dog. You can see that its (their) body is attached with three heads poking on either side.

STEP 2;

Now, I started to Merge the three distinct shapes into one, it now looks more like a whole figure Dog with three heads. One more thing you might notice is that I added a tail for our Doggie (Monster yeah).

STEP 3;

In the third step, I added Coloring, perhaps a bit too early, but I wanted to see a full picture of what it should look like (again, I'm a beginner artist, not that I'm complaining). Also by blocking out the Feet (Paws) and adding a tail, the picture starts to form.

STEP 4;

Here I started adding more detail to the body of Cerberus, the three dogs would have a different pattern on each one's frame, see below.

Step 5;

The main picture of Cerberus has been completed, the eyes, ears, nose, and teeth are all filled in. A couple of touches is needed and more important a background.

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My idea for the background was initially, Cerberus standing on the top of a Mountain(typical), something like in lion King, with wide spans of forest trees on the background - this I tried but since it wasn't coming out as expected I went for something simpler(perspective remains my Achilles), the idea distributed by my sister who knows all about my playing Splinterlands. I felt dumb not having thought about this. The answer was to fix Cerberus in a CARD.

So the final Artwork below;

I hope you enjoyed the showcase, and with that being said - You too can participate in this weekly challenge with the splinterlands community by keeping up to date with their blog @splinterlands, and of course, by actually playing the game to form some bonds with the amazing monsters we have (and yeah ALSO creepy). My goal is to onboard more artists into the community because well, I would love to see more of the creative and artistic side showcase amidst the many awesome written contents we have. You can signup on splinterlands Here AND with a lot of Guides that can get you started with the many details of Splinterlands, you should be firing away in no time!.
Thanks a lot for reading, Chel_

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