[CR] Unusual Friendship

in #ntopaz5 years ago (edited)

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It's a fact that dogs are man's best friend, but this is because they didn't try to eat you. Imagine being in a fantasy world, walking relaxed, just until a dragon tries to make you dinner.

Therefore, today I will give you some valuable advice. If you want to befriend a dragon, to fly through the air and light fires quickly, you must conquer it by the stomach, keep it satisfied with a lot of meat, lest you give it a little hunger and end up as a tasty snack.

Tools:

  • Medibang Paint Pro
  • Mouse

-Step 1:

As usual, put my idea quickly into an ill-defined sketch.

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-Step 2:

Then, in a new layer, improve the layout to capture the main idea of the drawing in a clean and distinguishable way.

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-Step 3:

It's time to add the base color, as you say, these are some tones that will be the starting point for the coloring of the illustration. Once the base is added, we proceed to detail a little the drawing, you will notice that I have gone directly to the face of the warrior, giving him the appearance of an older man by establishing somewhat rustic features.

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-Step 4:

In this step, I have focused mostly on the background, the common thing is that I do it at the end, but I had been fixing the warrior for quite some time and I wanted to distract myself a little. So I decided to discard the original idea of a dense forest and replace it with a beautiful castle in the distance. Due to its remoteness, it was not necessary to detail it too much, but it was a game between lights and shadows to give it volume. Also, with a really soft brush, alternate between some colors until you get clouds typical of a sunset.

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-Step 5:

I've already detailed a bit of the warrior's armor, but it's time to pay attention to the dragon, specifically its head, there use a watercolor brush looking to emulate a scaly surface. I have also added the place where the warrior and his best friend rest, creating a new layer, drawing a few bricks, and giving them volume through shadows and some flashes of illumination.

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-Step 6:

Finally, I have finally painted the dragon's food (which seems to be very little and if he is hungry, I can say "goodbye warrior sir"), I have also arranged the hands and face of the warrior, giving him the look of a strong old man and I have added some very cool tattoos on his arms (I invented them).

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I'll leave you a little gif with the whole process in it, so you can better appreciate the step by step.

http://picasion.com/

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This is very cool @hadley4, impressive it was all done with the mouse and not a drawing pad.

I noticed the facial expression of the warrior is a bit odd maybe because of lighting, you could ask @stahlberg for some tips or advices on digital paint :D, he's really good on spotting what's exactly wrong...and not sure if still does it but he also made paint overs showing how it would look best.


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I would really prefer A Dragon as a pet :) And especially fire dragon... hah

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Amazing artwork @hadley4 Thank you for sharing your art process so we all can learn. In Asia we also have water dragons that can erupt water or gem :D

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I love fantasy artwork and you chose such a cool theme:)
Getting ready for the new season of GoT!!

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Thank you @georgeboya, oh yeah! the final season is getting closer and closer, in fact I am preparing something special to celebrate it.

Oh, really? Looking forward to see it and celebrate together:)

Awesomeness bro, I love dragons!

Me too! they're terrifyingly beautiful beings :D

Thanks for sharing this very interesting design! It's a cool idea. 😎


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Awesome artwork, it's very impressive that you were able to draw all this with only a mouse. I used to thing my mouse skills were very good, because I played this game called osu...nope guess I was wrong haha :D

I also have a feeling that advice for dragons work super well for big snakes too, even if dragons were real I thing I woud be more scared of snakes anyways hahah xD

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