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Gift for a friend who enjoys monstery things and succulents. The plants are some sort of Lithops (brown eggy things on the left) and Fenestraria, AKA "baby toes" (more like alien eyeballs, they sure don't look much like toes to me), not an uncommon houseplant, I used my own rather gangly specimen as a reference.
Watercolor, acrylic, grey copic fine liner.
Roughly 9" x 11", maybe 11 hours?
Gift for a friend who enjoys monstery things and succulents. The plants are some sort of Lithops (brown eggy things on the left) and Fenestraria, AKA "baby toes" (more like alien eyeballs, they sure don't look much like toes to me), not an uncommon houseplant, I used my own rather gangly specimen as a reference.
Watercolor, acrylic, grey copic fine liner.
Roughly 9" x 11", maybe 11 hours?
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Dragon (Other)
Gender Any
Size 800 x 1032px
This is amazing! Absolutely beautiful! What gorgeous balance between colors. Just looking at this makes me want to buy tons of succulents and place all over my home, imagining swarms of little dragon-bugs inhabiting the weird landscape. I am seriously blown away once more and I have got to stop procrastinating...
Every time I see a new upload from you I itch so desperately to break out my acrylics again. You are a HUGE source of inspiration to me! Keep up the fantastic work!
Every time I see a new upload from you I itch so desperately to break out my acrylics again. You are a HUGE source of inspiration to me! Keep up the fantastic work!
Ah, okay. The scales and wings pattern is beautiful, congrats!
Personally, I'd add some color values to the foreground of the environment: it seems to me the dragon is on the foreground compared to the root on which he's gonna land.
The rest is perfect.
Personally, I'd add some color values to the foreground of the environment: it seems to me the dragon is on the foreground compared to the root on which he's gonna land.
The rest is perfect.
I see what you're saying about the root. The root is very pale IRL (going for a sun bleached look) but there is a bit more shading and the shadows are deeper, I was just having a hard time bumping up the shadows on the wood without messing with the dragon's colors too much.
I've been fiddling with the colors in PS, and I reuploaded it and it looks a bit better, but still not as nice as it does in person. I probably should have deepened the darkest roots shadows, but after three days of painting I think I was going cross eyed.
I've been fiddling with the colors in PS, and I reuploaded it and it looks a bit better, but still not as nice as it does in person. I probably should have deepened the darkest roots shadows, but after three days of painting I think I was going cross eyed.
I see. Try deepening the darker parts of the root, with a darker brown, maybe with brighter tones - compare a root under a grey sky and a root under the sun. Brighter and more deep colors will help I think.
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