Feels like it's been forever since my last post - a month or two, at least! But here is the final "Fields of Gold 2", which, funnily enough, is mostly green. Sometimes, that's just how it works out. And the extra greens worked well with the background base-board, which I'd had sitting around for a decade or so, just waiting to be used.
This is really a bit of an experimental piece. I layered the dragon's body, with his head and closest limbs on the top layer, his tail and far limbs on a second layer, and the background as a third layer. I love the effect, but I realize that it's hard to see in a 2D presentation like this. You can get at least some idea of the layering in the shadows that the scanner picked up.
I didn't use a whole lot of extra bibbles on this piece. All the shiny bits are acrylic rhinestones and metallic thingamabobs this time. I colored the dragon entirely with Prismacolor pencils, and used Prisma markers for some extra shading on the farther limbs to enhance the layering effect. The baseboard is acrylic. The dark green border is matboard.
This is really a bit of an experimental piece. I layered the dragon's body, with his head and closest limbs on the top layer, his tail and far limbs on a second layer, and the background as a third layer. I love the effect, but I realize that it's hard to see in a 2D presentation like this. You can get at least some idea of the layering in the shadows that the scanner picked up.
I didn't use a whole lot of extra bibbles on this piece. All the shiny bits are acrylic rhinestones and metallic thingamabobs this time. I colored the dragon entirely with Prismacolor pencils, and used Prisma markers for some extra shading on the farther limbs to enhance the layering effect. The baseboard is acrylic. The dark green border is matboard.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Eastern Dragon
Size 864 x 400px
File Size 99.2 kB
Epic as usual
title and topic of the picture somehow reminds me of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE
title and topic of the picture somehow reminds me of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE
Thank you - and that's a fascinating association! I love the song itself (and its many variations), though in this case it wasn't the direct inspiration for the piece. Just a very nice coincidence (or perhaps subliminal influence; you know how that goes with art sometimes!)
Thank you! I'm glad the 3D layering effect comes through on-screen. That's always the difficulty with these pieces - either I scan in each element before I assemble it, and *reassemble it* in Photoshop (which takes almost as long, or longer, than sticking the actual art pieces together), or I scan the completed piece and hope for the best (my preferred method - lazy me). I do only a little bit of post-work in Photoshop these days, because I no longer have the patience to do the project twice!
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