Of Fire and Ice - Stibnite

This is a sketch from 2012 that also had another figure in the background. The drawing got heavily reworked and was never published before. I colorized it for the #Huevember2025 challenge over at Cara.app

The challenge was to use certain hue or color in an artwork on a specific day. On the 19th and 20th day of November the hue was "Stibnite" which is a grey-ish metal alloy which is toxic. The hues shown in the color picker for the challenge were very blue-ish though. I decided to use both a color layer to shift the drawing's colors to the blue and a gradient map with the dark values mapping to stibnite but the lighter values being mapped to warmer orange and red hues which were also part of the overall color pallete for the month of November.

The character is a fire witch.

Friends

This is a digital painitng done entirely in Photoshop sometime in 2021 as part of a Mermay challenge.

The actual drawing was done in black and white only, the colors were strictly done in overlays. This was an entirely new approach for me and the result worked very well. I actually didn't spend very long on this painting considering the level of detail that got painted in.