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Thanks to the dragon character auction going high - I made this tutorial as promised !
1. Prepare flat colours. The area of iridescent scales should be in one of the colours in the spectrum wanted - it's best if that colour is dark!
2. Take a brush with sharp edges, such as an inking brush and draw scales! You don't have to draw all of them, just those areas where they will be of different colour than the base colour (this is the key if you want to have results quickly).
3. Lock transparency in layer and take an airbrush, pick the same colour as the base and brush the edges - or however it looks good.
4. Add some highlights to the scales too.
5. Special effects? This isn't a mandatory step anymore but an easy way to further enhance the shinyness - Alpha lock your layer and set it to overlay mode, then brush in the colour you used for highlights (or some other bright colour that looks good try them out!)
This dragon only has a spectrum of darkish red, orange and yellow. But iridescence could also be the entire colour wheel! :D
1. Prepare flat colours. The area of iridescent scales should be in one of the colours in the spectrum wanted - it's best if that colour is dark!
2. Take a brush with sharp edges, such as an inking brush and draw scales! You don't have to draw all of them, just those areas where they will be of different colour than the base colour (this is the key if you want to have results quickly).
3. Lock transparency in layer and take an airbrush, pick the same colour as the base and brush the edges - or however it looks good.
4. Add some highlights to the scales too.
5. Special effects? This isn't a mandatory step anymore but an easy way to further enhance the shinyness - Alpha lock your layer and set it to overlay mode, then brush in the colour you used for highlights (or some other bright colour that looks good try them out!)
This dragon only has a spectrum of darkish red, orange and yellow. But iridescence could also be the entire colour wheel! :D
Category Artwork (Digital) / Tutorials
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 470 x 1283px
File Size 493.2 kB
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