Draco! New Digital Painting

Hi!

I just finished a new digital painting and wanted to share it with you.

( Learn more about "digital painting" below. * )

This image started out LONG ago as a quick digital "sketch." I wasn't at all pleased with that rough idea—but something kept drawing < art humor ) me back to it.

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You'll find an early concept sketch—along with the final painting and a "detail" view of it below.

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Over-time—I'd open that sketch in my software and fiddle around with it—trying to refine and improve on it.

I'd move things around, change this or that, and paint a bit—but frustration with those efforts would quickly set in—and I'd move on to other things.

Recently—I was going through my "Works In Progress" files and opened it and was inspired to began work on it yet again.

As I did—I finally felt like I was making some progress—and was able to finish it just today.

I think part of the reason for that creative burst—is that since I made the earliest concept sketches—I've developed more confidence and skill in my digital painting abilities (fully knowing I'm just beginning to scratch the surface with that)—but also because I'm starting to loosen up my painting style a little.

Part of that transformation has come about in part by simply putting in a lot of hours digitally painting various projects—but also by looking through TONS of real world and digital painting masterpieces that people have posted on-line.

Seeing all that amazing art has truly helped.

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Here are a couple of my favorite sites where they post lot of exceptional artwork:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork?sorting=picks < Primarily digital art

http://tvorchestvof.blogspot.com/ < All kinds of mediums - but leans towards mostly traditional painting both old and new.

^^ Please be advised that while these sites have a huge variety of excellent masterworks—there is artistic nudity and arty weirdness on them as well.

: )

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Anywho—without further ado— here's my newest digital painting (along with a "detail" and an early concept sketch).

Draco - Copyright 2018 - Jephyr! -All Rights Reserved

^ ^ ^ One night after putting in some time working this—I had most of the final layout done including the dragon, sky, and guy on the mountain—but was still refining it.

I went to bed and suddenly "saw" the dragon in my minds-eye—with a border along the left going under its wing.  

As I envisioned that—text from the book of Revelation 12—about the Dragon filled with fury came into my thoughts—and I wondered if I could add that to the border as well.

The next day that was still bubbling around in my thoughts—and I set about seeing if I could incorporate that.

As I worked—I was pleased to find that the border and text aspects came together very quickly.

Although as you can see—I did end up extending the border all the way around the painting—and used only select verses from Chapter 12.

Draco (Detail) - Copyright 2018 - Jephyr! -All Rights Reserved

^ ^ ^ Here's a look at the painting—without border and text.

Early Concept Sketch  - Copyright 2018 - Jephyr!
All Rights Reserved

^ ^ ^ Finally a look at one of the early ROUGH sketches that started it all.

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So—that's my story about my latest digital painting—and I'm stickin' to it.

: )

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See other Jephyr! digital paintings—as well as links to other artwork at jephyr.com.


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* Digital paintings are created with computer software and a tablet interface.

A stylus used with the tablet acts as a paint-brush, pencil or pen—depending on what tool and options you've selected—and an image can be hand-painted onto a digital canvas in the software just as you would with a tradition medium like oil paint—that can be shared on the Internet or printed out.

After the initial investment of the computer, software, and tablet—there are no other supplies needed.

This means no trips to the art store to purchase paints, brushes, turpenoid, canvases and so-on—and best of all there are no toxic fumes or brushes to clean, etc.

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