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When my little sister was young she had nightmares, so I drew her a dragon to protect her in her sleep, that's why she asked for a dragon for the munchkin. Gotta design a cheeky little protector for my niece <3 :D

The trick is designing a dragon that'll be non-threatening and fun to a two-year-old, but cool enough for a fast-growing kid at six. I figure I'm gonna have to do a second total redesign somewhere between 10-13 anyway when the munchkin inevitably hits the Edgy Teens, so I also have to leave myself room to evolve the critter into something *painfully* overdesigned :P

Seriously though, it's a surprisingly complex design challenge. It's fun :D

Some dragon color exploration tonight.

Time to get serious about that painting.

Took a while but I feel pretty good about that neck now.

Got a little progress today, but I think I gotta put it down for today. I don't feel like I have it today, and it's usually a bad idea to try and push through that if you don't have to.

Painting, Day 76: After forging a path through the right shoulder and arm, we began our descent into the lower torso. We lost good men coming around the scapula, men we cannot replace. But the queen is relying on us to forge a path in these godforsaken wildernesses, and so we must press on. May the lord watch over us as we attempt to paint a goddamn fucking knee.

We're starting to get it together, I think. Time to get lunch.

Time to work on the wings

Making good progress today but I gotta stop or I'm gonna give myself a headache @_@

painting eyes is hard enough when you're NOT painting for a one-year-old who is absolutely gonna be developmentally fixated on faces for the next six months @_@

i may be obsessing a bit

Unironically referencing cereal boxes right now, just sayin

Still got some reflected light to deal with in the hair, but I'm pretty satisfied with the eyes and horns. Really dreading dealing with the fire, tho

Alright... Let's tackle the fire on this bad boy :/

Me: Okay, the secret to painting good fire is chaos.You gotta get scratchy and wild with this.

My brain: But this is important! We need to be careful! It has to be perfect!

Me: If it's careful, it won't be perfect.

My brain: *scanners-style explosion*

This is how you stop me if I turn into a MONAD-style murderous computer. This is my logic bomb.

Okay, I think I can live with that fire. It's more complex than I intended, but other than that it's fine.

I need to finish this painting by Tuesday. Please send me your ability to focus, I'm gonna need it. @_@

Now we reach the point where you COULD say okay I'm done, but that would be a mistake

You've just spent five hours working on the painting. You're too close. You can't see the errors anymore. Put it down. Go do something else. Best case scenario, don't look at it until tomorrow. Wait for new eyes.

Art is so fucking stupid. You spend a week painting something and at the end go, "This doesn't look right" and some little corner of your brain says, "Put a little white square over there" and you do it AND IT WORKS

Fucking arcane bullshit 9_9

"When you're working, it's important to remove all distractions so-"

Fuck off buddy, those distractions are load bearing.

"I swear the lighting wasn't this complicated when I started," and other lies artists tell themselves

@jwisser I mean this would also work :D