#flame dragon

Flame 🔥 redesign

The tail feathers spread out like a peacock 🦚

SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN (vol. 1) #84 (April, 1965). Cover by Curt Swan.

Leave it to Jimmy to not think through his latests hare-brained scheme. "I'll put two giant monsters together to make a movie. What could go wrong?"

I love how Titano is like "Hold on a minute, Butane Breath, I gotta kill this guy!"

Not at all inspired by King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962).

And I'm sure this issue did not - in any way, shape, or form - inspire the last issue of Konga that was released later the same year:

This is Shadowgorge 3 from 2016.

I wanted to use bolder colors and a fairly simple composition compared to the first two in this series. In particular, I wanted to increase the "golden" look of the wings and the "flame" look of the dorsal ridge, shoulder ridge, and tail fluff. I think I succeeded there, and I really ended up liking the red-blue-gold contrast of this color palette.

The moons don't please me as much as in previous versions. I was too focused on the physical texture and not focused enough on the moon-like surface effect I wanted to achieve. Later images in the series have rectified this problem!