Back in the day I used to read quite a lot of fantasy. Years ago it was normal for me to get on a stair-mill in the gym, crack a novel open, and do slow burn cariod for hours while reading away. Sadly this habit has gone away. I rarely do stairmill now, and usually spend time on the treadmill these days. Running is much harder for me though, and I can't read while doing that, nor can I last as long even at a slow pace...
This is a pencil drawing I made in 2012, of a character from a novel by
Richard Knaak which is part of a the Legends of the Dragonrealm series. I vaguely remember bits and pieces from these novels, probably need to read the books again to get the details. What was really interesting to me regarding this particular series were the dragons and some of their abilities. The ruling dragons had distinct elemental abilities, and one of the outcast dragon kings was Blue who I believe was an ice dragon. In the series, some dragons could transform into humanoids. They were still dragons, just looking like giant heavilty armored knights. Years later, I don't remember as to why the dragons did those transformations, perhaps to help them make themselves more relatable to the humans. I did find Morgis the Dragon Knight character interesting enough to draw him though. He appears in some of the earlier books, and later becomes a major character in one of the books. Very powerful, if I remember correctly Morgis was actually a son of Blue, and there was a failed love angle in his story that did not have a happy ending. I like it when some endings aren't happy...
Either way, this drawing has been slightly tweaked in Photoshop, but not to the usual extent I like to paint over my sketches. It is actually fairly large drawing, much larger than the usual format for my sketches. I did intend to paint over it, but as with many of my failed paintings, never got around to it.
