Okay so I decided to give the eastern dragon another try and I think this one was a success, in terms of choices in color palette, I think this is one of the prettiest things Ive done as of late. This is making me consider the dragon a lot more, he has a cherry blossom motif going on.

As usual I'm still getting the whole shading thing down in this new program. I'll go back to finishing full pictures sometime soon!