Oh, this is stunning! The background works so well with the character and everything just blends together in a really beautiful way!

Thank you
The lighting in this one is a bit mysterious. I didn't want the dragon to be too dark, but the light from the cave mouth was coming from the wrong angle. Maybe she has a magic flashlight that's off camera or something :D

I later added a spot of sepia pencil to the center of the gems to make them less stark.

i never really understood watercolor pencils that was hard for me to draw with.i do like how well it was colored and the background is lovely as well

I'm glad you liked it
I find that with watercolour pencils you have to think in terms of how much pigment you're laying down, as well as how dark you're making it. Sometimes it's like drawing the same picture twice, the way I do it - once with the watercolour pencils and again with the ol' polychromos :D

how do watercolor pencils work i didn't even know how they worked on paper and other stuff

They pretty much work like coloured pencils -- and you can use them just like that if you want -- but you can also go over them with water/brushes and they turn into watercolour paint on the spot.

Here's what I do: use a very heavy paper -- at least 180 pound stock -- and draw on it as if I was creating a regular ol' coloured pencil painting. Don't skip on details and try to get the tone as close to what the finished work will look like. Then paint it carefully --- the more water you use, the lighter the tone will end up (no matter how dark it was before you started painting) so it takes some fiddling about to figure out how much to use where. Then when it's dry I go over it again with coloured pencil, and if I really need added punch, I use a think acrylic paint wash over that (plus some white paint to highlight stuff).

Hopefully that answers your questions :)

this helps a lot and i never knew that and what is acrylic paint i am not real familiar with that either i know regular paint and stuff used in art class but not that kind of paint

Acrylic paint is somewhat like oil paint -- it comes in the typical tubes and jars and comes out wet. But it's base is a polymer, so it dries quickly and is basically a sort of plastic. It's usually water based -- you clean up with tap water.

I like 'em because they dry fast and they tend to be brighter than oils. You can water them down and use them like watercolour paints too. Any good art store will carry them. You can get a student-grade starter set by the Reeves company for a reasonable price from most art stores or large craft/art outlets like Michaels if you wanna try them out.

Check it out at

http://www.fineartstore.com/Catalog.....ost%2CUnitCost

(Now I sound like a shill for Reeves :D They're not the finest but they're cheap - for acrylics)

Hope this helps too :)

well in my experience i had this solar system kit a long time ago and the colors was so confusing at the time i had that thing and i didn't know what happened and i was getting lost in the colors because i had the thing done correctly but it still looked bleh i used the brightest colors but after many times on the solar system it was so hard to paint it even though the ref sheet i got in it was so hard to get right

I love the detail on the sapphires, it almost has the impression of watercolor with the bg.
~Kai

Thanks
I actually didn't like how it came out the first time, so I went over the thing about 8 times with a thin acrylic wash (in some places)

This is so bloody SLICK looking! I can't get over the contours in the face and sleekness of the body. If the person you did this for is in ANY WAY "meh" about this I will hit them with a dead fish myself.

Bloody fantastic!

Aww... thank you

So that's why you keep those dead fish around.... good to know...

this is incredible! I so need more time to arts : (

I find when I start a project and really give myself time for it, it gets done in no time at all, but I rarely have free time -_-

Thank you


"Art is long and time is fleeting"

I dunno who said that, but it's so durn true.

I so agree

this is an interesting design for a dragon, beautifully done though and unique, I really like this, inspiring, perhaps I can base a story off of her design, who knows. I just find her features....interesting, I can't place my finger on it but it's something I like

I'd be honored if you'd base a story off her - and so would Lynn too.

I'd promised and promised and promised a dragon for my friend Lynn for ages. I finally got up the courage to paint one.

I think of her as a lady dragon, in spite of the beard.

heh, it would take some thought (i'm already trying to finish a series with dragons in it) but I'm pretty sure my illustrious imagination could come up with something, give me some time and I think I could pull it off...that is when I'm not buried under piles of Grad school work...