It's been a busy couple of days really and it's not easy being a Nigerian. The cost of living keeps increasing each day and the kinda money that could keep one afloat can't even keep anything anymore. It is tiring really
In the midst of it all, I was able to come up with something, taking inspo from Fire Spitter
lineart: for this one I sketch in a pose and just went straight to the lineart, refine it and move on to colours.
flats: after the lineart I paint in the flat colours. I colour in the body of the dragon, the wings, and the dragon spine thingies.
Shadows: after the colours I colour in the shadows. I open another layer, select a colour from the surrounding, in this case a dark red, change the layer's blending mode to multiply and colour in the shadows. I do two layers of shadows to give it more depth.
After the shadows I then colour in some rim lighting on selected parts of the body.
The background, I keep this very simple and paint in gradient between dark red and black.
Then I paint in the fire and add in a few details to the piece.
Next I select all the layers, duplicate it and merge all the duplicates together on top of every thing. I then duplicate the merged duplicate and open filters and select the gaussian blur, put it on 30% and then lower the opacity to 30%, this created a nice effect. With that done, I add in a few details and the piece is finished.
This piece took roughly 2 hours total work time on Krita and photoshop.
