BlueJay Dragon WIP

I managed to sit still long enough this weekend to get more done on my dragon. Since the moving day got pushed even further back to the ninth, I might get a little bit more done before I have to pack it away. I'm starting to learn the whole patients thing more. I really have been holding myself back from just attacking it without a practical eye and ruining it. The legs are definitely going to be redone, but I want to ask for some advice from others before I try fixing it myself.

Well, I better go pack my box for the day to get it out of the way. Then get to go to the house and clean, yay..

Moving On

I know I said no promises, but it looks like we have take off! Gee, I have pencils there I'm not even using. Oh well, it's a security thing I guess. Have to love my cluttered desktop, and don't ask what that is to the left that says Monster on it!



I gave up on the stupid scanner and just used my digital camera, at least I have -something- I can rely on even if it's a five year old camera.
I was so excited how positive I was feeling about this I had to share what I had so far. Though the more I look at it's torso the more I make faces at it. Oh well, I never said it was perfect and it can be fixed and I'm still excited!

I have a feeling after this weekend I'm going to lose all my spare time as we get back into weekend overtime. We are also suppose to close on the house the twentieth, so things are going to be hectic after that. I know that's when we are really going to see how much overtime we really need to do in order to pull everything off. I get so nervous/excited about it I don't know what to do.

OK, gotta crack the whip and see how much of this I can get done before I go to bed in a few hours. Yes it is 5 AM here :P

Changing Faces

As I'm sure you can see I have given the blog a face lift. After playing with the colors for a bit I think I got it to where it is readable. I can read it, but if your having a hard time reading it, let me know. I can make the back ground on the font darker or something. Knowing me, the starry background is probably going to be changed a couple weeks from now since it really doesn't match the banner, but I do like it. I never can go with simple, plain colors, it has to be busy :)

Stage One, Complete!

It's hard to believe that summer is already coming to a close. The season is never long enough for me and it really doesn't help I live in a cooler region. So as I sit here and shiver just thinking about the winter to come, I bring good news. I finally finished drawing the soon to be Blue Jay Dragon!



I am pretty sure I'm OK with how it looks to go ahead and move on to coloring, that or I'm just fed up with it ;). I always have a hard time with hands and feet and of course there wasn't an exception here. I changed the head and removed the horns as that didn't seem right to me for something that was going to mimic a bird. So I just gave it a hard plating on its head that is shaped slightly like the crest on a blue jay. The branch is dead, or it's winter, I haven't decided that yet but I'm not comfortable enough yet to try foliage.

In the spirit of dragon drawing, I thought I would share another WIP I have laying around.



This was inspired by a game I was playing that is all dragon. In the game there are four different types; Earth, Wind, Fire, and Ice, and the dragons are customizable. Unfortunately I didn't get this idea till seventy-five percent through the game but I decided to take each element and draw the heads. Each one has three different head types, this one is the Earth Dragon heads. I want to give the pieces a look like something a researcher would draw in a journal. I'm happy with how these came out except maybe the bottom one, looks a little deformed.

The only thing about this little 'project' though is that I have to go back and restart the game to go through the levels I already finished since you can't revisit them later. So this is going to take me a long time to complete. I think it will just be an in between thing so when I get frustrated with another drawing, I have an excuse to play video games to get art done :).