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Published: 2018-02-16 23:09:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 2323; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Here we have some more character art from my story, "Dragon Dreams." This is Stolvir, one of my favorites (although most of my characters are favorites). I'm still getting the hang of doing digital art, so it's not the most polished piece, but it's good for an overall impression of what he looks like, more or less. Hopefully my dragon drawings keep improving. There's no background because I'm lazy and it probably would look terrible anyway, so he's just gonna float there.I'm pretty happy with it overall, though! Please enjoy and feel free to comment/critique and let me know what you think. I'll be doing more visual art when I can, and I would love to do more characters. Let me know in the comments if there's anyone in particular you'd like to see me do next!
If you haven't read about Stolvir yet, you can find Dragon Dreams here !
Materials:
Autodesk SketchBook software
Wacom Intuos Draw tablet
~5 hours (estimate, but I'm still slow)
Here is my process for making the drawing:
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Oh, well, no problem thanks for the fav!
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Nice work 
Do try to add some little backgrounds, even if it is just a simple field or a wall of sorts. It really forces you to take the space and lighting into consideration. It does make it all a bit more difficult, but it surely pays in the long run 
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Thanks for the comment! I will try harder on backgrounds in the future. I recently upgraded to the pro version of Sketchbook so now I can use those random brush variations you talked about! Great tip for leaves and scales. And I know what you mean about physical brushes in traditional painting! I've done traditional painting quite a bit longer than digital, and those irregularities are hard to translate to the computer screen. That's definitely something I can work on.
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Randomized settings help a lot with that 
Krita is also a very solid digital painting application, and with it being open source it sometimes surprises me why not more people use it.
But hey usually the UI/simplicity in use is what resonates the most with artists
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Those sound cool I'll have to check them out!
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For Verve I'd look up some vids on youtube... what some people do with it is really cool
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Wow those videos make it look so cool! I definitely need to play around with it
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The scales look quite nice and realistic here! Nice job!
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Looks nice, but let me tell you something about backgrounds. It doesn`t matter how crappy they are, they just get points for participating. Just be sure that the environment looks sort of like somethign reasonable for the foucs, that thing in the center with tons of detail and effort. As long as that happens, it should look good.
Granted, I have about the same skill as you at drawing and that might just be an opinion. Take it or leave it. I don`t mind.
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Hey, thanks for the comment! I'll be sure to try out more backgrounds in the future. I'm sure I'll find some techniques that work
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