I'll be streaming LIVE for a couple of hours tonight.

If you miss the stream I should have a couple segments recorded and available on demand in the livestream channel itself :-)

Here's a little something I sketched up this afternoon. There's a unit in the next book on two legged dino/ostritch dragon leg construction and how you need to balance such creatures with a very upright position or a long heavy tail and such. I'd imagine that this guy walks on his wings a little bit when he's idle :-)

Oh yeah, and he's on fire.

Its amazing how many drawing issues you will notice if you leave a piece of artwork alone for a night and return to it with a fresh perspective.

My Desktop gave me a scare last night. In fact, I'm not sure that everything's 100% okay. It sorta... wouldn't start windows. For an hour. I ran the windows repair utility a couple of times and for no apparent reason, it finally loaded up. I saved everything I could think of on something that wasn't the auto-backup external harddrive. (I'm still not entirely sure how to use the PC external HD backup. It's not as intuitive as the mac's time machine external auto-backup.)

I wanted to apologize to those that came to my stream last night. I did not intend to cut it short or leave people hanging. The audio troubles have been resolved, but after that happened the computer fried and by the time I got things running again, it was simply too late to stream!

I did put in some more work on my lung knot sketch. He's kinda cute and twisty.

I started on something new since I'm not keen on immediately redoing PCRaven's corrupted commission. I'm still rather bitter that the entire file was lost due to a crash during a save.

For this guy I was trying to draw a dragon that runs lower to the ground and very solid. He can barely glide, let alone fly :-) After I finished inking the body sans scales and small details I was all like "YAY ITS SO NEAT AND DIFFERENT AND ORIGINAL" and then 5 minutes into putting the scales I'm like "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- This looks suspiciously built like Lizardus" Oh well. I guess he's a cool critter anyway. :-/

I was surfing icanhascheezeburger today and ran across this ad:


Ads like this is why there's anorexia. To imply that the first body is fat or unhealthy is ridiculous. A little bit of body fat is normal and healthy. Stuff like this really makes me angry. They also misspelled "ancient".

Some sketch stuff that will probably go nowhere, haha. It was fun to take a quick break from the massive amount of dragons I have to draw. These are pretty rough and have lots of anatomy issues. D=

I've been asked to post more of my rougher sketches and things before they get all corrected and sparkly inked up pretty, so here we go.

I'm going to tell you now that there are many drawing issues because I have not done any corrections to it yet. The skull structure needs some referencing, in addition to some symmetry. The hips could use some help, and the back leg placement could also have some greater care put into it. The wings coming at you could also use some TLC. Hahaha. This is basically the second pass of sketching. First pass is a very loose gesture. Second pass is nailing out the details. Third pass is correcting anatomical errors ect. Then inks. It sounds like a lot, but actually all this happens in about an hour, haha. Finally it gets inked and colored after all that mess.



And if you wanted to see the size that I ink at, this is it zoomed into 100%. I should still probably dig up some reference. I made this up >.>; It doesn't look right, haha.

( Full Image under cut. )

( 4x sketches underneath. These are the sketches for some of the half price dragonart commissions I took a few days ago. Still waiting on approval, so some of these may change when I do the final pieces a touch. Still kinda fun to see in their rough stage. :-) )

I need to tweak the one on the right a bit. His face is a bit misshapen and appears hairless :-/

A WIP closeup of the Tidecaller dragon from ustream today.


I'm a bit worried about the piece overall. I needed to draw the full body for book purposes, but when you take into account the small size that this will be printed at, the fact that I havn't added in all the crazy chaos pattern, shading & light is not yet in place, and that I'm adding in a background... it's going to get so busy. It may be a cluttered mess, which is a shame. I really do like the drawing on this.

I've been having a ton of fun visiting all the ustreams popping up on my friends list. I thought I'd give it a try myself. I'm not sure about my desktop capturing software and there are likely to be bugs, but I thought Id' give it a try!

Neon Dragon's Art Ustream.

Edit: That was fun.

Things I learned:

1. Sound blasted over your speakers is blasted twice over to your mic.
2. Have a plan before I ustream.
3. Eat before I ustream.
4. Clean the basement before showing people my cats...
5. Get the music working so I can alternate to it after I've run out of ramble.
6. Don't ramble.
7. Stream pieces that can be completed in 4 hours :-/

The ironic part is that I used more allosaurus reference then raptor... I need to find some good feets ref.