Painting A Dragon

step6 Painting A Dragon

After a slight colortone-correction,and adding more contrast, i begin directly with a new layer to draw the red parts, like : mouth, tongue and eyes. With just a simple circle brush, and 20% color-transparency.

the first layers i use only the flat,hard edge-brushes, later on the details and shadows, i use the Airbrush.
Just a hint; i used to make a copy of the pencil drawing, and give it a gamma-interpolation, to have more homogenous strokes in the endresult, without drawing every line again with the wacom;-)

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