smrrfette's Odyssey

[Flo]

hey there smurfette,

nice illustration you have there. I also like your sketches and the croco study. As for crits (although a bit late ;) I did a quick overpaint.

I thought it would be good to introduce a foreground so I put a bunch of clouds in front of the dragon. Also I thought its anatomy was a bit weird complicated and I could make out a bonestructure. I looked at a bat's arm and applied that to the design. Then I added your cool subsurface scattering and the veins and the other arm.

For the face, as I said I like that croco study so I just put it on their. It may be just personal taste, but its face seems a bit to evil and also a bit lumpy. The croco shape looked clearer and more friendly to me, so I changed that. I also added some shadows on the neck and tried to hide some of the lines on his neck-scales, since lines tend to make things look cartoony.

I also added some clouds in the background to define it a bit more and the bird in the foreground for an additional overlap.

Other than that I really love, I think the colors are really cool and realistic. Nice work.

Cheers