Dark Dragon Project

[Atrapa Almas]

Hello all,

The objetive of this thread is to keep track of the painting advance of a dragon I bought back on 1998. I want to have it painted by summer 2023.

I just started today, and I tried to do the first coat of black, but did not finished it.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Well there it is

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Lets see all the brushes please

 

[Rodafina]

Yes! We get to watch the dragon evolve.

 

[Luca]

Wow! That’s super cool!
Can’t wait to see the finished product

 

[foliodoe]

Wow, twenty five years in the making!

 

[Atrapa Almas]

This morning I have painted blue ligth coating for the blue fire and purple shadows coating for the darker parts of the wings.

I have used a big brush. No details needed in the coating phase.

And I am using half a plastic glass to mix the paint.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Wow, twenty five years in the making!

Just to start with the making...

 

[Kayla55]

Lol, luv da dragon

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Today I was not in the mood for more coating, so I focused to give some detail to the broken doors. I build green and yellow transition for the blue fire. And painted the doors.

They are not fully detailed, but at least look decent.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Down scales red coating and some blue coating on the lighter part of one wing.

I think this guy is going to end more coloured than I pretended for a dark dragon... Well, lets see what happens...

 

[Mr. Stevens]

^ Very nice, Atrapa Thanks for sharing.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Thanks!

Today I have coated the dragon fins, purple at the base to blue at the tip. Its just the coating, but gives an idea of the color blending I want.

And I have worked with the corrosive blue fire acid, and how it illuminates the rock where the dragon is. Its not finished, but will give me an idea of the volumes and lights.

I think the next step (probably at Friday) will be to cover all that white parts, its too much contrast now.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

I was wrong. Today I felt like working more on the Rock/Tower the dragon is on. So I painted some grey colours, some light and shadows. Im not satisfied with the result, but looks better than before. I guess its decent.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

As I was not happy with the rock I have painted some shadows to make the volume more interesting. Now Im happy with the rock.

Lets see if I can finish coating wings in the next round. Coating is boooring. Eficient but boring.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Finished wings coating, worked the ligths of the fires, did some fire reflections on the dragon skin and did some details on one wing.

 

[Rodafina]

I enjoy this thread so much! Thank you for the updates. Lookin rad!!

 

[Atrapa Almas]

This morning I have worked on the tail fin, giving ligths as it glowed. I also put some ligth reflections on the scales.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

This evening I have painted the lights and shadows of the chest scales. I have tried doing an inverted lighting, bright at the inside and dark at the outside, like the light comes from the inner parts of the dragon. I have also done the red reflections of that red light on the dark scales. The figure is slowly looking like I want.

Not pro level, but decent.

 

[Rodafina]

This is genuinely exciting to me. Thrilled to see those lights and shadows and watching the whole thing coming along!