#painteddragon

It's time for a month of dragons again! I am indeed participating, and following a list by Katy Lipscomb I believe. I will be doing as many as I'm able to.

The first day was fruit, and I wanted to paint a raspberry dragon, since I've liked them for a long time. I wanted to bring the texture of the berry into the dragon as much as I could, so I added the texture/shape to the scale details. I wanted the painting itself to look like you've caught a glimpse of one of these little guys while looking through a raspberry bush. I only really used two colors for this one.

I started with a rough preliminary sketch in light, erasable colored pencil, then went over it with a regular pencil for adding details and structures. From there I layered in the background leaves slowly, building up the layers there before adding in the color on the berries and dragon itself. I went over the layers of watercolor with colored pencils in a few places to add in more depth.

For day 2, the prompt for Smaugust on the list I'm following is Forbidden, so it made me think of Slifer the Sky Dragon. I thought since I'd painted him once before digitally I'd try to do so again. I do have another painting I had in mind for this prompt of my own dragon, but this one ended up wanting to be painted first, so to speak. The other one will likely be shared down the road as well.

Day four from Katy Lipscomb's Smaugust prompt list was paper, and so I came up with this critter.

I was inspired by paper dragons in Dungeons and Dragons, where they essentially can absorb spell scrolls and use the powers once. Those dragons feed off of the magic in the scrolls. I leaned into the idea where it's a living amalgamation of books, paper and spells collected over time. Definitely a creature possessing a fair bit of knowledge to say the least.