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Description
This piece is a full-body, full-render of a new random and pretty chaotic dragon character I was inspired to make. I will likely do more with her later but I thought this would make for a fitting start. For context, the weather where I live is very unpredictable and we are currently experiencing snow in places even though it is Spring 🥶😡 (with other places getting extreme heat ☹️). Of course me being pretty indifferent of snow, I don’t know what the heck to do with it 😆 and I don’t think she does either! Really, this character is just a happy/derpy goof (chaotic neutral/good perhaps) who doesn’t get to be around snow much or perhaps never experienced it before. This idea stems from all the hilarious friends I’ve come to know on campus that actually live somewhere else where it never snows and are eventually confronted with the crazy weather we have to deal with here after moving in for the school year. I find their reactions funny and priceless but it also makes me very happy to see others so ecstatic about a little thing like snow that we locals are so quick to write off as a total nuisance.

Technical Stuff

Technical-wise, I created this piece using an updated process that involved more layer structure and more fair blending techniques (aka blending that applies shading more evenly regardless of the colors underneath) to achieve similar results to what I was doing before. In simpler terms, shading can now be applied the same way to any other new piece as I did with this one and it should look just as finished. This mainly means the colors of the character do not greatly change the effects of the shading (where as before, the shading was dependent entirely on the colors of the character). I can even save out the colors of the shading/light in the form of gradients and reuse them!

Although I still feel I have more work to go on this process before I am willing to call it a major improvement, I think I did a pretty good job of getting it up to speed with what I was doing before. Definitely let me know what y’all think below! It would really help me get a better understanding of whether or not I’m going in the right direction with it or if there were certain things done better before!

More Possibly Cool Stuff!

Also, check out my other accompanying posts where you should be able to find more info on my plans and junk!

Here's Razz (Reece) with a new look!
Here's Flint having a difficult time!

This journal update explains even more!

Copyright 2019 © by J Plotting (Jakob Plotts). All rights reserved.

Description
This piece is a full-body, full-render of a new random and pretty chaotic dragon character I was inspired to make. I will likely do more with her later but I thought this would make for a fitting start. For context, the weather where I live is very unpredictable and we are currently experiencing snow in places even though it is Spring 🥶😡 (with other places getting extreme heat ☹️). Of course me being pretty indifferent of snow, I don’t know what the heck to do with it 😆 and I don’t think she does either! Really, this character is just a happy/derpy goof (chaotic neutral/good perhaps) who doesn’t get to be around snow much or perhaps never experienced it before. This idea stems from all the hilarious friends I’ve come to know on campus that actually live somewhere else where it never snows and are eventually confronted with the crazy weather we have to deal with here after moving in for the school year. I find their reactions funny and priceless but it also makes me very happy to see others so ecstatic about a little thing like snow that we locals are so quick to write off as a total nuisance.

Technical Stuff

Technical-wise, I created this piece using an updated process that involved more layer structure and more fair blending techniques (aka blending that applies shading more evenly regardless of the colors underneath) to achieve similar results to what I was doing before. In simpler terms, shading can now be applied the same way to any other new piece as I did with this one and it should look just as finished. This mainly means the colors of the character do not greatly change the effects of the shading (where as before, the shading was dependent entirely on the colors of the character). I can even save out the colors of the shading/light in the form of gradients and reuse them!

Although I still feel I have more work to go on this process before I am willing to call it a major improvement, I think I did a pretty good job of getting it up to speed with what I was doing before. Definitely let me know what y’all think below! It would really help me get a better understanding of whether or not I’m going in the right direction with it or if there were certain things done better before!

More Possibly Cool Stuff!

Also, check out my other accompanying posts where you should be able to find more info on my plans and junk!

Here's Razz (Reece) with a new look!
Here's Flint having a difficult time!

This journal update explains even more!

Copyright 2019 © by J Plotting (Jakob Plotts). All rights reserved.