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Last year I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to work on a dragon book for Scholastic by way of Becker&Mayer Books. I got to take a crack at designing 16 different mythical dragons from all over the world for a book called Sink Your Teeth Into Dragons.
This piece was actually the very first one of the bunch, it was done to pitch the project. European dragons have been done so many times I wanted to try sprinkling in a reference that you don't see often; fish. I looked a lot at various species of fish for the wing webbing and body patterns, giving it a bit more of an exotic hint. I spent the longest on this one out of all the dragons pieces, but its not my favorite one. Though I learned a ton from this one though that helped me push through the others at a much quicker pace. Red dragon; more like bread dragon amirite.
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Photoshop CC: 25 hours
Illustration©Becker&Mayer Books
This piece was actually the very first one of the bunch, it was done to pitch the project. European dragons have been done so many times I wanted to try sprinkling in a reference that you don't see often; fish. I looked a lot at various species of fish for the wing webbing and body patterns, giving it a bit more of an exotic hint. I spent the longest on this one out of all the dragons pieces, but its not my favorite one. Though I learned a ton from this one though that helped me push through the others at a much quicker pace. Red dragon; more like bread dragon amirite.
Others from this Project
Photoshop CC: 25 hours
Illustration©Becker&Mayer Books
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What interesting wings!