The Dragon's Eye

This was actually done for my advanced drawing class, we had to draw something imagined without references. Naturally dragons came to mind.

While working on this I also learned a new way to color, curtesy of this awesome photoshop shading tutorial: [link]
It basically uses adjustments layers for each light/shadow source.

I've always had difficulties getting shading and coloring to look good, so this should be a great push towards actually doing some colored pieces and not just sketches like I usually do.


Fun fact: The original pencil sketch for this was done on 24x18 paper which I scanned in in 6 small pieces, merged together and then worked off that. The final file-size was almost 500MB, at almost 7000x5500 pixels. Even the flattened png was 40 MB in size, and can be downloaded here if you dare click the download button

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