Eastern Dragon: Final Process

Sketch

Lineart

Block Colours

Shaders and background colours

Multiplication layers, volume enhancing



I am less impressed with this outcome as I am with the westernised dragon. I may be due to the choice of a blue background that is too saturated to repesent the sky. The details of the dragon itself are fine, but doesn't work well with the background as intended. A improvement could be the de-saturation and lightening of the blues and using a more subtle feathering effect for the background.

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