I did not know what to draw today so I decided to do an anatomy test while using a reference I've never tried before. I really quite like it, I might do more of these it feels like I'm learning a lot in a very short amount of time.
I decided to give myself an easy nice sketch today after all my experimenting and painting. It's nice. I'll be back to it the next day don't worry.
Good bye summer, onto autumn.
WIP, Well I think this is the most drastic improvement I’ve made over such a short stretch of time. I’m going to finish off this tomorrow and then the next day use another different coloured dragon in order to broaden my idea of light and dark colours coming together.
Oh yeah and also the sun in the top left is just to be a constant reminder where the light source is.
Alright after a lot of tips and cross refencing, I have finally go something that I'm more content with. Still no where near what I exactly want but I'm liking the progression. Thank you so very much to DoomsdayBear and others for helping me whittle down what was going wrong so I could improve!
Tomorrow I will be using this as reference for another different angle, so I can pick out what's not working with this improved version and refine it further.
Attempt number two of doing the funky colour theory someone who knows way more than I do told me to do. Sorry about it being a bit bright. You might want to go into the picture so its not so MUCH.
Alrighty tightly, done, completely feel free to say anything you think looks wrong about the painting. Pretty please.
So I wanted to continue practicing the kind of painting shading thing, I want to go to oil painting too as well, but right now I'm to stick to what feels most natural feeling for now and paint more of a dragon's body to get confident.
(also this dragon will not be in the book, but I will name him Dinkel regardless)
Alright I have been working on my line art, I've always struggled with it and as I have tried to practice it I have started to realise that It's not really doing anything and I think I know why. I have Dyspraxia in my fingers, I already have to take breaks regularly or my fingers feel like they're going to fall off, but now I'm pretty sure they're shaking up my lines. SO! I've done something about it, I tried a bunch of different methods and I think one that works for my paper mashie hands is doing chicken scratches super, super small, zooming all the way in and tracing over the sloppy sketch to clean it up. I think this might work.
As you can see there's parts where I sort of drop the ball (the right wing, the neck, end of left wing support thing), but the face and eye I'm really proud of, so I'm sure I can get it consistently finally if I nail down this type of drawing.
(also GOD it feels good to be able to post on my pc again now that my image sending issue is fixed on the web version)
Her name is Hera, she must watch as some desolate, inbred beast of a dragon takes HER birth right! She, won’t let this stand, those vile bright eyes of gold! by Midas’s gilded watch she will stop this- this usurper!
AH HA! I have finally found a way to be able to send my art through the web version of reddit! I don't know why but i have to download the image as a PNG then send it to a friend through discord, then save the image off discord, THEN! It will accept it.
The reason why i was forced to figure it out, is because my phone that I've been doing it all though has just suddenly started refusing to charge and I think its about to die on me.
besides that this is not the red dragon you might have seen before in previous posts, this one is more or less mentally unstable depending on how you look at it.
I look forward to colouring this tomorrow!
I will be doing another later today, I made this yesterday at 1am since I was trying to find out more temp bans rather than drawing, but I just now got my appeal accepted so instead of waiting 3 days I just had to be pissed off for a night.
I have always wanted to try making a comic-y thing, i didn’t quite know what to make one about which is why I never really tried, but I was… inspired by events earlier today.
And as promised I fixed my last day’s drawing and added the speech bubbles I meant to add.
There we go, god I do not know how to draw fluff, it just ain’t natural, scales are simply better and that’s a fact. Just fucking watch this become my most upvoted drawing literally when the last yuri drawing on day 3 was just dethroned. Again this Ryukiridragon’s characters, if you want to see the orginal check there and her game while you’re at it.
As promised from yesterday, the shape yuri dragons by u/Ryukiridragon. I will do the colouring tomorrow for that dragon drawing.
Idk exactly how it works since im just now getting cosmetics, but i know theres skin bans or something along those lines. Now i want to have this nice dress, but i do not know how scorched eath roblox is, so is this bannable?
I just made the plan of the ending of my book, I think it’s perfect for the type of moral and messages I want it to convey. And I’m not telling you guys shit about it, buy my book (when it comes out) and collect my pages.
I revisited this as I’m trying to save it since I don’t know how to texture the scales so I’m throwing bread at the wall until something sticks.
Also the next dragon drawing is going to be the math yuri dragons that Ryukiri (i now know how to spell it) made. I wanna fan the flames of how popular the gay goobers are getting.
Wow, what a journey it has been so far, this has been lovely and thank you to everyone who’s commented giving encouragement and generally interacting.
And as promised I shall reveal the name for the book I’m making that this is all for, that you’re all simply DYING fucking DYING to know, can’t possibly wait any longer, on the edge of your seat!
Yeah the name is “The Heretic Dragon”
I did want to finish the book’s plan on this day, but uhhh, holy fuck I had to make an entire food system that makes sense in universe and come up with a rational series of events for major supply chains breaking down. So yeah it’s going to be a little bit until I can actually finish the plan, but I will let you all know when I actually get to writing the thing.
I want this thing to be big, I’m pouring my heart and sole into it, and I’ve been spying on wings of fire learning everything that people have had issues with (and my own grievances), so I can learn from them and make the best dragon book I can possibly make.
The book isn’t aimed for a younger demographic it’s for teens and older, (by the fact a major recurring theme is suicide, emotional violence and what that does to someone mentally).
My friend a while ago I asked about wings of fire and they said quote “looking back, I really don’t like the protagonists, like I get they’re kids in the first book. Yeah I just kind of grew out of it”
And that really stuck with me, the last thing I possibly want is for someone to say they have grown out of my book, which is why I truely want every character to be as deep and emotionally complex as I humanly can make them. Each of them having evolving characters through the story so they can truly feel alive.
I do hope that you will stick around, to see it come to fruition.
And for anyone who needs to hear it, suicide is never the answer, it’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
See you tomorrow.
I could only do minor changes today because I think all the goofing around with the bark scales yesterday fucked up my hand and now it hurts.
Gave her the first coat of paint since she’s actually a character from my book, and I’ve also realised holy fuck this is going to take so long isn’t it there’s so much wood to texture why did I make green dragons so hard to draw, CURSES!
Bit of a lazy sketch today for tomorrow’s painting, used my usual dragon drawing time to play the new forsaken update, it kinda sucked.