Monika Zagrobelna

The last time, when I painted a dragon with an open mouth, I had some troubles with its look. I decided to study animal mouths…

I painted this dragon for fun, but also to experiment with adding a pattern to the scales in a natural way. I ended up with…

Recently I had a chance to draw the un-dead Viserion from Game of Thrones for a video tutorial for Envato Tuts+. The tutorial was only…

I’ve been studying feline heads for a few years now with a goal to understand them completely, to be able to create new species without…

I’ve never played Spyro, but recently I’ve been watching my husband play the reignited edition and I started to wonder how Spyro would look if…

Some time ago I started to create a simple animation of bird wings, just to remind myself how they work. I worked on it in…

Recently I found this photo of earless monitor lizards, and I loved how dragon-like their scales looked, so I decided to study them. But to…

After I painted Scar with a very quick method, I was wondering if it could be used for longer hair as well. Short answer: no.…

I’ve painted this dragon without any real plan, but it looks like I found a cool method for painting scales without any special ambient occlusion…

This is not going to be a full fledged tutorial, but rather a quick presentation of how digital painting can be tackled for the fastest…