CGAN Jan 2022 - The Wizarding World - WIPs

The Wizarding World

Brief: Apparently it's exactly some years since Harry Potter did something. In celebration of this incredible feat, this months challenge is to create something Harry Potter related. 

Deadline: Midnight on the 31st of January. Voting will then take place and will not end in any kind of a tied votes (because Hufflepuff wins)

This thread is where you post your WIPs (work in progress), final entries should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/current-...-world-final-entries


Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

What better way to celebrate an anniversary than to paint a picture of my "favourite" "sport"?

 

Just keep it this way - the blurriness adds a sense of speed!

Just spent a few moments backing up my ArtRage paintings to an external drive and freeing up some space on my internal hard disk.
And now to work a bit more on this pic...
Which isn't there any more.
And I've emptied the recycle bin.
*plugs in external drive again*
And I didn't back up that particular file cos I knew I was still working on it.

*downloads low-res jpeg from previous post*

EDIT: And now the paint doesn't blend correctly cos it's a .jpg and not a .ptg file.

Valence wrote:

EDIT: And now the paint doesn't blend correctly cos it's a .jpg and not a .ptg file.

Does copying and pasting it into a new layer help?

I did import it to a new layer but that alone doesn't do much. The best work around is to create a new layer underneath, completely cover that with paint then merge the two layers. Of course then I have much more paint on the canvas than before so I've also had to change the canvas texture to increase the roughness so that it doesn't smear around like butter on glass.
It's working better now. Not as good as the previous file but it will do.

EDIT: And none of that is helping me with that hand.

A bit more...

 

Quite a bit I'd say
But to be somewhat critical, I'm not convinced his sitting on that broomstick...

Yes, now that you've made me look at that I think the bristly bits at the back need moving down a bit.