Phantom Thieves n friends (still needs Mona)

I don't think I made the ridges in Darius' horns distinct enough during his first iteration. More importantly, I was torn on how to handle thin sheets like his script. Giving them different textures/colours on both sides means making them more than just flat planes - extra tris AND potential PS1 jiggle issues.

But as always, there ended up being bigger fish to fry - namely extreme elbow/wrist twisting and my eternally poor grasp of colour theory.

And I thought shading Astor and Alban was difficult.

Darius' hues border the exact blue part of the colour wheel and they're washed out enough to start looking purple. It feels like I've made a mess of his vert colours juggling saturation and hues making things look warmer or cooler. Sometimes greens made better highlights, other times leaning towards blue/purple did...only real constant was that saturation or lack thereof can do so, so much for just a single hue.

I may need to consider making actual palettes in the future. Winging it is never a good idea 99% of the time despite my insistence on doing exactly that, but whenever I look at the dragons' vanilla textures, I fixate on the way the hue and saturation shift across the body and I end up hesitant out of fear of inaccuracy.

Like whoopdeedoo, I'm actually keeping colours saved in Blender palettes and using vert colours on squares as cheatsheets for tails nowadays.