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Merowynn — Kain Dragonslayer
Published: 2012-11-07 22:54:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1068; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 12
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A few weeks ago in D&D, the party happened upon a green dragon in the Demonweb Pits (long story). We made a deal with her that, in return for setting she and her wyrmlings free from the Demonweb Pits, she would help us fight the drow. Unfortunately, the drow captured her wyrmlings and threatened to kill them if she didn't kill *us*. Kain, who had been riding the dragon since she was supposedly on his side, promptly decided to carve the dragon apart. He wounded it to within a breath of dying, and his party took care of the rest.I'm doing pretty good with this digital painting thing! I just *really* need to figure out the color part of it. >_<
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Thanks! Scales are such a pain, but they always end up being worth the effort. ^_^
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It looks cool. Though I'm curious, what setting does your DM play (3.0, 3.5, or *shudders* 4.0)? And how does he/she fit in foxes?
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We usually play 3.5, or some variation of it. Sometimes Pathfinder, and this current game we're using Trailblazer, which is like a powered-up 3.5, though some aspects of it are a little too unbalanced so we'd probably house-rule it next time. The character isn't actually a fox, he's a human wearing a fox mask. 
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ooooooooooooh neat.
I currently am DM'ing two campaigns, both are heavily house-rulled. The current one we're working on is a HR 4.0, only because I found a lot of stuff to make managing it easier (we run it on a forum). Probably around Thanksgiving, I'll be able to post a full-party pic of them.
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this is absolutely breathtaking
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I really like this <3 The shading is very fluid yet I can feel how bumpy the dragons hide would be but how sleek the scales would be. The dragon's expression is clear and the wrinkles in Kain's clothing suggests the weight of the different materials.
A tip a teacher of mine gave me for coloring stuff like this. Since you have the grey scale underpainting, color will be easy. Place another layer over this on Multiply and once you've figured out your color palletes, you can use carefully lay the color over where you feel it should go. After that, you can touch up how everything blends. Also, if you use photoshop you can give the underpainting different color casts to further add to how the colors blend .
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Thanks, for both the compliments and the tips! ^_^ I'm currently working on it using the Color blending mode to get the general hues blocked in. It seems to work well for lighter colors, and solves the problem of the shadows looking too black. I'll try going back in with a Multiply layer next for the darker areas, and then just play with the variation within the hues. I'm finding that shading with unexpected colors is making the biggest impact, like shading blue on pink, or orange on green.
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That makes sense. C:
And definitely, color is the most fun part to mess with in a picture because of how it behaves. I love playing with how colors overlay <3
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