Olooriel's Practice Blog

[Olooriel]

Finally, here's something more recent. I'm working on a dragonborn paladin DnD character, so I picked the dragon studies back up, starting with heads (first three from very basic tutorials in Jessica Peffer's DragonArt book, last three are black dragons from DnD, referenced from other people's art:


Next I studied poses that other artists used for their characters - first some dragonborn, then some paladins:


The three human ones in particular made me realize that I forgot what little I knew of leg anatomy, so I went back and did some studies of legs:


Then attempting to come up with a pose of my own - veeery rough scribble with lots of erasing that damaged the bad paper I was using, but it was good enough for the basic idea to take some reference photos based upon:


After looking at reference photos of my husband, this is the slightly corrected (but still rough) digital sketch I came up with (hubbie "complained" that it did not look like him at all XD)