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The Rainbow Serpent took quite a while to sketch out, scan and then clean up on Paint Shop Pro 8, and I was then faced with the problem of giving the giant reptile an appropriately colourful scaly skin. I was initially tempted to simply use one of the pre-made flood-fill tools already included on the graphics editor but I felt that such an important reoccurring character warranted some additional work and effort. As a result I took a photograph of a piece of shiny Aztec-inspired patterned cloth, ‘cut out’ the shape of the huge snake from it, and then merged the two together. I liked the combination so much that I even reduced the size of one of my drawings, where Dhakken spits out the malformed Langloh, in order to incorporate more of the Rainbow Serpent in the panel. In the final posting its Agent Unknown verses Carpet Snake and there can be only one winner…

Description

The Rainbow Serpent took quite a while to sketch out, scan and then clean up on Paint Shop Pro 8, and I was then faced with the problem of giving the giant reptile an appropriately colourful scaly skin. I was initially tempted to simply use one of the pre-made flood-fill tools already included on the graphics editor but I felt that such an important reoccurring character warranted some additional work and effort. As a result I took a photograph of a piece of shiny Aztec-inspired patterned cloth, ‘cut out’ the shape of the huge snake from it, and then merged the two together. I liked the combination so much that I even reduced the size of one of my drawings, where Dhakken spits out the malformed Langloh, in order to incorporate more of the Rainbow Serpent in the panel. In the final posting its Agent Unknown verses Carpet Snake and there can be only one winner…