
This is a recreation of an older image (not posted here)
Razor doesn't ususaly show off, but the camera man is presistent.
He doesn't look amused at all, but he's doing it just so the camera man will go away.
I tried to get Razor's color as close to bronze as possible without making him too shiny. My metallic dragons arn't realy metallic, they just have the base color and are slightly shiny.
I tried a new shading technique on this one, I call it stencil shading. I'm sure it isn't a new technique, but I like it.
What I did was put the shading and lighting on step by step, one section at a time. I didn't try to stay in the lines, I just tried to make it look round. As I finnished each step I went over it with a hard eraser and removed all of the over spray. I used a soft eraser to blend the areas where light and darke crossed over without a line.
I then put a second layer of just shading on it to make it look 3D, I used a very large brush and just shaded the areas farthest from the light, then I cut out the overspray with the hard eraser again.
Lastly I very carefully created the shadows that he cast on himself with a brush tool and the eraser again.
The shadow he casts on the ground and wall was just a completely black copy of his entire body that I edited with the skew and perspective tools. Paying attention to the direction and angle of the light. It may not be perfect, but I think it looks good.
Razor doesn't ususaly show off, but the camera man is presistent.
He doesn't look amused at all, but he's doing it just so the camera man will go away.
I tried to get Razor's color as close to bronze as possible without making him too shiny. My metallic dragons arn't realy metallic, they just have the base color and are slightly shiny.
I tried a new shading technique on this one, I call it stencil shading. I'm sure it isn't a new technique, but I like it.
What I did was put the shading and lighting on step by step, one section at a time. I didn't try to stay in the lines, I just tried to make it look round. As I finnished each step I went over it with a hard eraser and removed all of the over spray. I used a soft eraser to blend the areas where light and darke crossed over without a line.
I then put a second layer of just shading on it to make it look 3D, I used a very large brush and just shaded the areas farthest from the light, then I cut out the overspray with the hard eraser again.
Lastly I very carefully created the shadows that he cast on himself with a brush tool and the eraser again.
The shadow he casts on the ground and wall was just a completely black copy of his entire body that I edited with the skew and perspective tools. Paying attention to the direction and angle of the light. It may not be perfect, but I think it looks good.
Category All / Muscle
Species Western Dragon
Size 850 x 1100px
File Size 762.5 kB
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