Showing posts with label Rider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rider. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Two Headed Dragon and War Beast

Two-headed Dragon and a War Beast - Sketches from 2024
These are two sketches from earlier in 2024. I've been very busy at work this year and don't even have time for sketching during meetings. I do intend to beef both of these up, just not sure when it will happen. They both look really good in the real world though, very difficult to photograph or scan properly.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Spider Rider Ink Sketch

Spider Rider Sketch
This is a ballpoint pen ink sketch made in 2024. The drawing is tiny, about 4 inches across. I intend to either paint over or redo this at some point in more detail sometime in the future....

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Dragon - Art from 2009

Dragon and Rider - Art from 2009
This was a pencil drawing from 2009 that I had started to paint over digitally but never finished. As a result I don't think this artwork was ever published anywhere. I've improved a lot with my dragons since this art was done, but this was one of the bigger illustrations I attempted at the time.

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Drake Rider

Drake Rider from 2009
This is an old pencil drawing from 2009, which was painted over digitally.

I touched up this artwork in 2024, mostly bringing it into focus, making some slight color adjustments. I still love the way this drawing turned out, so many years later.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Dragoner

Dragoner - Illustration from 2009
Hard to believe, this was from 2009. I remember making this drawing, I guess it was one of my better ones at the time. The girl was modeled after a photo of Kate Beckinsale. All painted in Photoshop. Here's the WIP:

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Dragons - Ink Sketches from 2019

Here are a couple of sketches I made in the year of our Lord, 2019.
This one is a baby dragon on top of an egg that hasn't hatched yet. This sketch would serve as a basis for a digital painint I made a couple of years later.
Dive bomb! Dragons are never far from my mind. I grew up roaming the hills looking for lizardss and snakes. I love scaled things that are cool to the touch! Do you feel the same way?

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Into the Sky

Into the Sky - Dragon Art
In times of peace or war, rain or shine, it's important to take your dragon out each day.  There's nothing quite like the exhilaration of falling into the heavens.

Digital painting made in Procreate and Photoshop, April 2018. 

Friday, May 11, 2018

Dragon Flight

Dragon Flight
Dragons, nasty creatures, but necessary in war.

Most of the time they want nothing to do with humans, and will unceremoniously murder any in sight. Dragon riders must always stay vigilant, else they might just become the victims.

That being said, some dragon riders, if they survive long enough, end up developing symbiotic relationships with their mounts. Especially in times of war. You see, dragons love war. If you lead them into war, they relish in it. If you feed their thirst for death and destruction, they will come to respect you, and listen to you... and that goad you carry, will no longer be used to smack them into submission, but to simply point them to the next target.

This is a digital painting made in 2018 mostly Procreate and finished in Photoshop.