The Dragon's out of the bag...

Today I want to share with you a sketch I worked on last night while playing Dungeons and Dragons, it's based on a concept my husband shared with me nearly a week ago.  I'm doing things a bit differently today because I'm going to show you the initial sketch, the lineart and the coloring.  I wanted to keep this one very, very simple with the shading.  I wonder if I oversimplified it though, maybe I should add a little more shading...thoughts?

Original Sketch:

 Lineart:

 Colored:

From the Sketchbook: Shields and Dragons

Today, I was doing a little research on medieval shields to make a logo for my husband's blog and out of nowhere a dragon popped into the drawing.  These are just sketches:

A Boy and His Dragon

The inspiration for today's artwork name is Eli, he's a young second cousin of my husbands and was at a baby shower I attended yesterday.  The weather was nice enough to have the shower outside and the yard we were in had a scenic, but very steep ravine...don't worry this story does not end badly..it ends comically. Eli had a stuffed dragon and while presents were being opened he decided to throw his stuffed dragon down the hill/ravine.  Luckily it did not fall far and his mother retrieved it.  I asked her when she came back "Did he think it would fly?" and she said "No, he was trying to feed the bigger dragon that lives in the ravine."   This really tickled me, to the point I can't stop thinking of Eli and his cannibalistic dragon, this drawing is a little scary and a bit reminiscent of Puff the Magic Dragon.  I used photoshop for the lineart and Corel draw for the coloring.

Pixel Dragon

About 3 years ago I used to do pixel art, lots of pixel art.  I took up knitting and just stopped doing the pixel art, not sure why, it just ceased to interest me.  So, today I decided to try a little bit of fun with pixels...I'm a little rusty but I'm pretty pleased with it.  I'm thinking of doing some game sprites...though I don't know how to program a game...hmmm.  

This image is very small because it's done in pixels, it's designed to pack detail in a small package.

Dragon Hatchling, Another Animation

Another simple animation done with adobe image ready, this time drawn on the computer instead of on post it notes, quick and dirty drawing, nothing too fancy...took about two hours, I plan on getting better...and faster.

Never Wake a Sleeping Dragon...

Today I made not just one but eighteen images.  I made a small flip book on post it notes...but then I couldn't find the cable for my video camera so I scanned the post it notes and put them together using adobe image ready.  This animation is not terribly fancy, but it is animation and I think I may want to do more of it...hopefully it'll get better as I go.

"D" is for Dragon...

In the words of wikipedia: Dragons are legendary creatures, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures.  Most of us know myths and tales of Dragons, they are perhaps the most iconic and popular Mythical beast ever, so of course I needed to include them in the alphabet.