Now that's what I like to see in here when waking up!

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Huhh, i really like your dragon and how you use the effects!

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Sketched in photoshop? Wow! You are very skilled! I would like to learn also how to use photoshop with all it's features.

Thanks! Yup, I started out with a very loose doodle in Photoshop, and worked it up from there. I've never really been a big devotee of sketching. Which isn't really something I'm proud of, but it seems to be the way I work. Its fairly straight forward with a graphics tablet to make underpaintings and sketches in PS.

Thanks for commenting!

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Jon Hodgson

A massive dragon? Not what I personally like to see over my cornflakes, but hey, whatever floats your boat! Just joking, thanks for the kind words!

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Jon Hodgson

Thanks!

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Jon Hodgson

i love your compositions, especially in this one. its a big invisible X that still keeps my eye moving around. i've got a lot of annoying questions i can't help but ask.

did you start out by splattering the texture on a layer after the loose sketch then building it up?

how long do you usually spend on something like this, and at what point do you consider yourself finished?

what was the most difficult problem to solve in this piece?

Then let the battle begin

Yay for the classics and for the picture

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Hey, I love questions!

I have a library of textures which I have made, or which are scanned from my old traditional paintings (which were fortunately very abstract and textural) So I use one or two of those, laid in as a multiply layer generally, over the loose sketch. Mostly I work on a single layer, any time I add a layer it gets flattened very quickly.

This one was about 2 and a half working days, with lots of breaks for internet surfing, which is a hideous waste of time, but which I am addicted to. I really beat myslef to keep working on this one. There's always more you can add, and its an eternal struggle to know when to call it done. I want to keep some looser areas, since I like that kind of thing.

The most difficult problem(s) were - the stairs, which are still not quite right, and I may well revisit if they bug me much more over the weekend. The dragons head was not sketched really, beyond a vague wedge, and that slackness at the sketch stage threw up a lot of problems with tangents.

Thanks!

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