Christmas Card

This week my instant thought was to do dragons, and make some pun involving warmth or forged. I though of many different ideas, brain stormed, drew, made thumbnails and sketches, simplified my idea and composition multiple times which resulted in spending too much time of that, and not enough on the painting.

Reference Images/Mood Board.

Sketches/Painting assets into a scene.

For my idea I was going to involve two baby dragons, so I wanted it to look cartoony and cute, so I decided to go for cell shading, which also forced to work on my colours as they'd be carry a lot of how the card looks.

 

After having some help from my classmate where we talked about the colours, I decided to rethink them and make it so they are less bright and have less of a clash.

I also decided to make a version with the line art from thew original sketch still showing, and one with the original sketch only showing on the dragons.

 

I did one with some brighter colours.

Then I made one almost greyscale.

In the end I didn't really like the final painting, however I liked the idea and the sketched I did for it.
I think the colours and painting could have been a lot better, especially if I had organised my time to spent less time sketching and more time painting.