It's been a while since I drew a dragon, so I decided to paint one in Photoshop. After about 3 hours this is the final result. I was hoping to get a few pointers because I don't draw dragons all that much. Anyone who's visited my DeviantART gallery knows it's been almost 3 years since I last drew one. http://nashida.deviantart.com/art/El-Dragon-149611907 A few things about the picture: 1) Don't CnC the background; I know it looks shoddy. I literally just slapped a gradient on it, and painted the rocks behind the dragon on a separate layer and then used the dodge and burn tools for shading. Then again, you would too if you'd been working on this for three hours. 2) The style I was messing with first involved painting flat colors on a layer just beneath the sketch layer. How I did this was I left the sketch on its own layer, made a new layer underneath it and filled it with color, set the sketch to Multiply, and when I started painting on the color layer, you could see the colors through the sketch. The next step came while I was doing the shading. I made a new layer above the color layer and left the settings alone. Next, I used the eyedropper tool and picked a color from the flats I had done (say, the underside of the wings). I then went up to Select>Color Range and that pulled up a little window that let me adjust the selection, and bam. Only the underwing was selected. I then shaded that by using darker shades of the color I picked. I continued to do this until the whole thing was shaded. So....what do people think? I've never tried this style before and I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.
