Georgina and the Dragon - Final!

The finished version. Original DeviantART post here!

Masquerade - Repaint/Version 2

This is a repaint of my Masquerade piece. Needed a bit of a breather from Georgina and the Dragon! Still far from perfect but looks nicer in my opinion. :) Original piece is here.

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 14

I've refined the background here! Another hour - 19 and a half hours up to now. Wow, its adding up! You can compare this to WIP3 for the basic background. Much nicer now, methinks!

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 13

Another hour... Wings done and some of the other markings. :)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 12

Another half an hour, quite impressed with how quickly I've got these scales done! (17 and a half hours so far)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 11

Another hour and a half on this; total tally 17 hours so far. Still quite a way to go! But as you can see I'm making headway with the scales. :) Theyre actually quite theraputic to draw! Theyre not ideal (ie not quite how I imagined them) but I'm still liking how its turning out. :) I actually lost all of last nights work as Photoshop crashed so... that really gutted me. I feel like I cant trust my darling Photoshop anymore. :( It was lagging tonight even as it saved the files into jpeg format so I was nervous, but it didnt crash again, phew... gonna have to take it easy with such a huge file size perhaps!

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 10

Another three hours, so up to 16 hours now... I've shaded the dragon's hide. Now I'm adding scale detail and also refining things like claws, etc. I am too tired to work on this anymore today so I will come back to it tomorrow, now. :-) I'm sad that I've only been able to do this this weekend, but unfortunately for drawing, it's been pretty busy! I have Friday off work so I am determined to finish it by then though.

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 9

13 hours done on this so far... I didnt quite manage to get Georgina finished tonight but I've got pretty far at least! :) The armour was hard to do - I really dont know how to draw that... But I had fun making her tunic all dirty haha. This was really theraputic... cant wait to get back to it tomorrow :)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 8

Up to just under 11 and a half hours on this now. I'm hoping to get Georgina painted totally tonight though that may be a bit ambitious! :)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 7

Another half an hours work last night (yes it took me half an hour to paint that teeny bit of chain mail lol. Told you it was time consuming!).... Making a grand total of 10 hours so far!! It's scary that this is so nowhere near finished haha. I long to paint more on this tonight but unfortunately I dont have the time. Fingers crossed I can put at least a good hour down on this tomorrow night though. :)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 6

Another hours work on this. Chainmail is very time consuming to paint!

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 4 & 5

I painted another hour to get to WIP 4, working on the skin. Then I have spent a further hour and a half on the rest of the skin and the hair. Up to a whopping 8 and a half hours on this so far and I'm nowhere near finished!

Next I want to paint the chainmail - I can't wait for that! :D I'm really happy with how this is turning out, thus far. :-)

Georgina and the Dragon WIP 3

Painted a rough background for the piece! Wow am I proud of this. I combined three photos for the reference for this (for of course I am hideous at backgrounds and definitely needed a reference to get what I wanted!) - one for the sky (the view from my hill), one for the middle ground (the view from the top of Simon's Seat over Appletreewick and the Yorkshire Dales), and one for the foreground (the moorland on the top of Pen-Y-Ghent, one of the Three Peaks). I didn't stick exactly to the reference but it really helped guide my hand. I took 2 hours to paint just this. I hope to refine the ground work though especially but I will wait til later to do that.

Hope you like this!