I created this image after I had a vision when visiting Gozo, Malta this spring. If you want to get the full story you have to follow my Book project...)
I first created a very rough sketch for the composition and flow of the dragon
Then I painted the building that the dragon flies through. Here not shown, but I actually kept the sketch of the dragon visible, so everything was put in the right place.
You see there are some stray lines from when I was painting on the wrong layer (which happens way to often). Now it is time for city in the background and some heavy cloud cover with a low, setting sun.
So let's put in the dragon. Here I pushed and pulled the original composition somewhat to get the dragon exactly as I wanted. Spend quite some time on it to detail it and get it right. Detailed the head a bit more as this is the main focal point.
I changed the contrast on the whole image and did a shadow pass on the dragon using a dark purple. And don't forget the teeth...
And finally one more dark pass and one more (sun)light pass and a signature...
During the process there was a bit of to and fro between the different layers, so the process was a little bit less linear then shown here.
Hope you enjoyed this. Take care!