#winged magic

Nayeli’s flat color is done! Might tweak the color of her eyes a bit more. If you missed the WIP, which I think Tumblr might have eaten, this is a redraw of an old beloved character of mine I made in high school. I wanted to draw her in my current style. Now I’m going to use her portrait for scale shading practice.

Another wip of Nayeli! Her scale outlines are done, which also means that her scale shadows are halfway done. I also tweaked her eye color and I’m much happier with it now! As usual, the hardest part of doing scales is keeping to the grid pattern while also not making them too perfect and unnatural. I erased and restarted the neck scales many times because of that. I like the little scales around the face the best, I feel like they look very realistic and natural. I might remove those plates on the nose.

Nayeli is having a lovely afternoon, and she hopes that you are too!

Hmm, feel like drawing, shall I finish one of my dozen WIPs or start a new one? Obviously start a new one, duh

Hey friendos, I’m looking for feedback and critique!

This is a wing design for an old dragon character of mine! I had an old comic about dragons (nine years ago jesus) and I’ve been redsigning the characters and giving them patterns on their wings, to attract mates during mating season

What I’m looking for:

Thoughts on the pink coloring? A different shade of pink maybe? Or a different color entirely?

Color scheme in general

Thoughts on the pattern in general

Suggestions

This boy is sort of cherry red colored, and monochrome aside from his wings. That blue stripe also occurs as a stripe across his eyes, a feature unique to him. He’s a real gruff, angry teenager, but he’s slowly learning to be a protective older brother and a leader instead of a bully. Well-meaning but a bit too hormonal, you know? I’m hoping this pattern goes well with that personality.

This version 2, and the old design is here. If you have no thoughts on it, at least reblog so someone else might see it?

So I’ve been redesigning some old dragon characters, and in doing so I decided that their wings get bright colors during mating season, so I set to designing some patterns. I was trying to figure out why this looked so familiar, and then realized it looks exactly like some of my childhood textbooks. A very 90′s dragon