Actually happy with how this one turned out. Went on Pinterest and looked through my various DRD mood boards and found this spiral staircase. Dragons have a thing for towers and spiral staircases.
This is an image of Quinta Da Regaleira (if you click the image, it’ll take you to the original image link). Supposedly, it was a masonic initiation well. Actually, my grandpa was a freemason. Wishing he was still here so I could ask if he knew anything about that.
At any rate, it’s still a cool, fantastical image. Again, dragons, princesses, towers, spiral staircases, you can bet I’m gonna be using this place as inspiration somewhere in the actual story.
Oh! And then of course, what did we learn?
I actually found that using 4 “colors” for the underpainting was helpful.
- Base color/wash (using the paintbucket tool to color the whole thing)
- Brown
- Dark Brown
- Black – Darkest shadows
Reference
My Version
Thanks everyone for joining me today! If you would like to take part in this challenge, please put a link in the comments so I can see your progress! Please read my comic, Dragonrider’s Dance on dragonridersdance.com or Webtoon Canvas! It’s an exciting fantasy/fairytale/action comic about a world where dragons are all female and disguise themselves as princesses!
