Monday, March 31, 2008

Dragon Study



I've been trying to improve my big reptilian skills lately. Here's the result. Things got a little noodley towards the end. Next time I'll plan it out a little better. Man, I wish I had someone kicking my butt to get this stuff right 10 years ago.

15 comments:

CS Jennings said...

yeah. i know. because that dragon sucks. (whatev)

i do understand the need to "have had your butt kicked 10 years ago," but since you are now kicking so much butt with your art, i think you're in good shape.

Cleveland said...

I don't see the noodle-ism in this here reptile but it still looks delicious.

Kennon said...

Awesome dude. Your painting skills are sick. I really like the nose design, the near vertical line of the nose and mouth. Very, very cool.

Paul Richards said...

Dig the contrast of upper/lower plating, and how the light stuff peeks through the cracks of the dark stuff. Unified!

Jason Chalker said...

Man, that looks really cool. The skin's awesome on the snout and I like the overall structure.

But yeah, you're a slacker for not being a complete bad-ass 10 years ago. Geez. :)

Aaron Sacco said...

wow! you've got mad painting skills that go along nicely with your fantastic drawing skills. i like that you didn't overwork the neck region and allowed your eyes to be drawn to the detail in the snout. i can't wait to see what comes next.

STOVEPIPE.NET said...

Very nice!

Craig Mackay said...

Beautiful work, Paul!

Pierre F. said...

Nice blog, I like your dragon.

Unknown said...

This is freakin awesome! Good God, I wish I could paint like that!

victoriaying said...

Such a fantastic range of work! This guy looks so scary!

Brett Bean said...

Lookin awesome as always, now learn to do that on yer DS!

Milenko said...

Sweet works all around.

Cheers to your skill,

Regards,

Milenko

Louise Smythe said...

Wow! This packs a major punch. I love your skills. The whole mouth area in general kicks major butt. And the lighting on the skin texture.... ahgahfpffffft! This is really inspirational!

EL GRANDE said...

Very nice blog.