Needs moar babies.

Those of you who attended Ohayocon may have seen me drawing this guy. I decided to scan him in and clean him up a bit. He's a touch thick bodied, but I think I like him ^_^ Impossibly long tails FTW!

Another dragon for Flight Rising. I hope to get these in color relatively soon. This one is the Light Weaver. He has too many wings. I'm drawing a background seperately for this image.

I tried something new with the inks on this one. In Photoshop, I created a layer above the inks with 30% opacity and painted solid white on top of the scales, making them a 70% grey while the other lines are a 100% black. I then merged these layers. With the inks being set as a multiply layer and colors going underneath, this should make the scales less harsh. On my deviantart critique request, one of the more mentioned concerns about my dragons was the fact that I always do leathery dragons, no scales. I tend to avoid scales because doing them often packs a drawing with detail and makes it hard to focus, but I hope that this technique will help with that!



For those anime fans in the midwest area, I will be attending Ohayocon this coming weekend. NeonDragonArt will be parked in the artist's alley for the duration of the convention. My mother and sister are coming to help me man the table so that we can all take breaks, walk around, and enjoy the convention. If you're attending, I'd love if you stopped by and said hi!

I decided to toss an extra 10 minutes into the digital presentation of my images and add some quick highlights to pop the sketch out. Between the textures, tints, blurs, erasing, cutouts, and screened highlights, I've got a fun little system down for making my pencils look nice. (You can see raw pencils below) Might be possible tutorial material, as the system is incredibly easy to memorize and is just a bunch of button pressing and time spent using the eraser tool. Its mind numbing, but really makes sketches look nice, especially if said sketches are being used for a portfolio of some sort.

Layout: While the drawing is okay, it sorta ran off the page in a very very awkward manner... after I scanned it in I realized the layout and composition on this are the purest of crap, even if the drawings are okay.


If I ever decide to color my crap, the cunning plan is to make it look like a widescreen image... with the whole black bar on the top and bottom to complete the cheapness.


I'm kinda sorta terrible about backgrounds, which is silly, because all I really need to do is treat the background with the same amount of attention and time spent on the characters... I just... never do that. And I should.