After the "last gasp of autumn" piece I just finished, I thought I'd change back over to "spring-becomes-summer" colors.

This dragon was originally designed for a tabletop RPG called Embers of Pyre. The original picture which we used for the game was a fairly simple pencil drawing. I went back later and enlarged it, added a bunch of detail, then inked it with Micron pens. One version of it, with a red and gold color palette, wound up on the cover of the Dragon Adventure III coloring book. That warm color palette was something the art director was keen for me to use, and it is marvelously dramatic and works really well for the book cover design.

However, I had a much more leafy color scheme that I'd been meaning to use on this design for ages, and I finally had some time to sit down and color it over the last week or so. I used Prismacolor pencils almost entirely for this piece, save some tiny accents I added with gel pens.