Recreating My Scarlet Witch Artwork ONE YEAR LATER

Wanda Maximoff

Marvel’s Wanda Maximoff also known as the Scarlet Witch was the first fictional character I made a digital art timelapse of on my YouTube channel. Given that it was the first, it obviously isn’t one of the best-looking artworks in my portfolio; so, one year later, I wanted to change that.

With the skills and knowledge I gained in a year of watching better artists create their digital artworks as well as making my own, I was able to recreate my Scarlet Witch artwork; making a handful of improvements while still keeping some of the elements from the original like the hexagon-shaped force field in the background alluding to The Hex from the hit Disney+ miniseries of early 2021, WandaVision.

The first notable difference between the two is how Wanda looks flatter, more cartoonish in the original while she looks more detailed in the recreation. Her hair is also more detailed as I used a custom brush to help draw her hair strands as opposed to the original where I just filled her hair with color using the bucket tool, barely adding texture. Her facial features look less like the faces of characters from children’s cartoons, too. My shadows and highlights seemed to have gotten better as well although I would still want to improve on this even more as I progress in this art journey of mine. Also, in case you didn’t notice, I added little silhouettes of houses at the back so that the background would also look more detailed, while reddish orbs reminiscent of “bokeh” are also scattered around the artwork.

Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with how I recreated this artwork. So much so that I feel like recreating more of my digital artworks from a year ago; but for now, you can watch how I created my original Scarlet Witch artwork as well as its recreated and way improved counterpart by clicking the links provided below:

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTt5RmZoHs&list=PLd_djTfvvy8EPlEhv_BUbvW4VHXPeI1Wy
Recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnP7Thfwink&list=PLd_djTfvvy8EPlEhv_BUbvW4VHXPeI1Wy&index=10