Draco Spinosa, or the Thorny Dragon, is an elusive predator found mainly in the dry brush regions of the great desert. It’s natural camouflage lets it blend in to the briar thickets found throughout the area.
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A sketch painting of a knight
Something I’ve been noodling away at when taking short breaks from work. I had the idea to practice painting armor and just kinda went from there. The armor doesn’t make a whole lot of sense (as far as functionality), but my goal was to work from imagination. Reference definitely has its place, but I want to get comfortable designing armor/clothing without having to rely on it (reference).
I’m back, after having not been away
Time to get myself back into a regular posting schedule. Just under a month ago I decided to retire my daily image project. After around two and a half years, I was ready to move on. The original purpose was to just get me drawing at least a little bit each day. I used to spend weeks thinking about drawing, but never actually picking up a pencil (or the digital equivalent). By sticking with my daily images, I conquered that problem. Now as I’m working towards doing illustration to support myself, I’m wanting to focus on more finished works. There were enough times over the last few months where I didn’t have much time to put into a particular daily image, that I was extremely unhappy with the resulting sketch.
Since setting aside the daily image project, I’ve easily been still drawing each day, but I feel much freer. That makes me happy. I do want to post regularly here though, at least twice a week would be ideal. I took a break from on of my work projects and doodled this creature.
Small adjustments to the lil’ mercenary
A lot of times when I finish working on a piece, I’ll keep coming back to it in the following days. I’ll see how I respond to it and what stands out as needing work, refinement, clarification etc. In the case of the character I posted the other day, the lighting just wasn’t popping enough for me and overall the image felt a little too desaturated.
I haven’t decided if it’s done yet, but I’m going to let it rest a bit and see what I think in another couple days. Areas that I’m considering working on: overall texture pass (on skin and clothing). Storytelling elements (other characters? Perhaps silhouetted in the bg and fg).
Daily… A sliver of a sketch
I was exhausted all day for some reason. I spent a lot of time doing research, since I didn’t have the focus to draw. Sat down with this creature before heading to bed.
