Tumblr reblog: http://abovecloudsart.tumblr.com/post/138441814407

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February 6th, 2016: Added the whiskers and some circle designs to the BG.

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A quick gift made for Favnoir on Flight Rising. It's their cool pearlcatcher bro, Shiro: http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=19447957

This was originally going to be a quick ballpoint pen drawing, but I thought that it would be a good chance to practice my digital lines/sketches. It's been YEARS since I've made any clean lines in PS, and boy did the final time reflect that. I think this ended up taking me longer than some of my fully painted headshots, haha. But, hey, I got the practice in at least. Maybe I'll finally get started on those ref sheets that I've been putting off for forever. (ref sheets, oh boy. X__x)

And please forgive the gratuitous dragon back. I've been studying back anatomy recently, so I had to include it somehow. It was fun to find the balance between showing too many muscles in the final (which will make the character look emaciated) and showing none of them at all. If anything looks off, just let me know!

(PS: the spots on his mane makes it look like he has shiny, shiny anime hair. ngl, that's my favorite part of all of this.)

I hope you like it!

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ART INFO
Art © 2016 by  aboveclouds
Pearlcatcher dragons belong to Stormlight Workshop

Comments and critiques are always welcome. :)

Tools used: PSE
Time Taken: 7 hours (seriously...)