Dragon Girl

[arielmedel]

I advise correcting your anatomy...

[Rastone]

Which part of the anatomy needs correction?

[asataylor]

I'd recommend you rough out the entire composition beforehand to settle on the anatomy/posture and dragon posture/design before you start a tight final painting like this.

As for figure rendering in general, I'd recommend checking out these pdfs over at Alberto's Process Junkie post (http://processjunkie.blogspot.com/2007/09/best-figure-drawing-books-ever.html). And the Bridgeman ones at the bottom are phenomenal for musculature when combined with life/photo study.

The Figure (http://www.amazon.com/Figure-Classic-Approach-Drawing-Construction/dp/0891340971/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250550373&sr=8-14)is one I got as a gift when I was a kid and it helped me immensely, but its not free like the PDFs. The Loomis ones cover the same things, but a bit less realistic than The Figure. So you end up starting off stylized instead of stylizing reality. YMMV.

[Rastone]

Thanks man, i'll begin reading.

What sucks is that my hard drive got messed up and i had to reinstall windows. So i lost my psd Dragon Girl file and the jpg is kind of fuzzy. I am not so sure i'll be continuing this wip. I will be following your advice on the next one though.

Thanks again Asataylor images/icons/icon7.gif

[asataylor]

You're more than welcome! And just look at the loss as a chance to practice, practice, practice! :)

PS - I didn't mention it before, but I liked the muted red and green with the grayscale. Reminds me of old Bisley/Corben work.

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