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This is my Secret Santa's gift for DragonsDungeon. When I was scrolling thrue the comments there was a lot of references that seemed both challenging and inspiring, I wished to do one of those, and his one was. Hours before Auri pm'd me I replied to his comment without knowing I'll be his santa, what a foreshadowing.
My creative process was quit different, starting by the head in heavy detail (that's kinda a beginner mistake, but I want it to get it right). Workes in grayscale, focusing in volume and shape, since the skin is highly textured. I tried to break the squared model with the leg design. I changed some elements from the reference, like adding flesh wings and moving the opening to the front. I couldn't integrate well the red and bone parts with the rest of the body, maybe I restricted the palette and in the future I should plan a gradient to fuse these colors, I lower the red saturation yesterday. For the hand I studied how DragonsDungeon and VinylReplica do arms, but I rotated them so it feels more like dino's arms.
I think that it's a good skin for the skill level I currently am, and helped me to work on texture and shape, I used a lot of the second layer too. It can be improved once I develop further knowledge/techniques and put more work onto it, but I really love the head, is awesome. I'm always open to constructive criticism.
Hope you like it, happy holidays.
My creative process was quit different, starting by the head in heavy detail (that's kinda a beginner mistake, but I want it to get it right). Workes in grayscale, focusing in volume and shape, since the skin is highly textured. I tried to break the squared model with the leg design. I changed some elements from the reference, like adding flesh wings and moving the opening to the front. I couldn't integrate well the red and bone parts with the rest of the body, maybe I restricted the palette and in the future I should plan a gradient to fuse these colors, I lower the red saturation yesterday. For the hand I studied how DragonsDungeon and VinylReplica do arms, but I rotated them so it feels more like dino's arms.
I think that it's a good skin for the skill level I currently am, and helped me to work on texture and shape, I used a lot of the second layer too. It can be improved once I develop further knowledge/techniques and put more work onto it, but I really love the head, is awesome. I'm always open to constructive criticism.
Hope you like it, happy holidays.
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I really like how you did the arms and wings, those parts are always tough in a zombie dragon, and I think you nailed them good! The back overall of the skin is really clean and good.
I think for the front, you overcomplicate the skin in some places, ie. mostly torso and face, where the shading is a bit intense, and very difficult to make out what actually is. Now this is a zombie dragon, where I actually consider such a thing somewhat acceptable, because it makes sense. But I think you're perhaps just a bit over the line, where it doesn't distract from the rest.
Thanks a lot for this, always appreciate a good zombie dragon, and you did a great job (:!
(Btw I love your write-up on the process and thoughts, that's a great and utmost interesting bit)
I'm thinking in write that process and thoughts everytime I feel I make a major advancement, reflection should help in my learning.