The Dragon's Eye by jo-shadow on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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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