How to Paint Realistic Scales Digitally
Dragons are my favorite subject to draw, but I don’t do it very often. Why? Because drawing scales is so time consuming! For many years…
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Digital Drawing for Beginners: Basics of Digital Shading
If you want to become a digital artist, but you don’t know where to start, this series is for you! I’ll explain to you all…
Digital Drawing for Beginners: What You Need to Know Before You Start
If you want to become a digital artist, but you don’t know where to start, this series is for you! I’ll explain to you all…
SketchBook Original: How to Draw and Paint Drogon Digitally
This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still…
Digital Drawing for Beginners: Best Program for Digital Drawing
If you want to become a digital artist, but you don’t know where to start, this series is for you! I’ll explain to you all…
Little Fawn: The Making Of
I found a nice photo of a fawn, and I wanted to check if I can replicate its delicate shading. So here it is—I painted…
Viper Cat: the Making of
What do you get when you cross a viper with a cat? Let’s see! If you want to try my method yourself, you can find…
How to Quickly Draw, Color, and Shade in SketchBook
I’ve created a tutorial for the new SketchBook Blog, with a video and a brush pack! You can find it here: https://blogs.autodesk.com/sketchbookpro/sketching-big-cats/
Simple Fur Brush
I found a cool photo of a very fluffy reindeer, and I used it as a study of long, nicely colored fur. By the way,…
Horns Study
Dragons often have horns, just like meany real animals. So if I want to paint realistic dragon horns, the best way is to take a…
Animal Mouth Study
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…
The Ash Dragon: The Making Of
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…
The Ice Dragon: the Making of
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…
Realistic Spyro Painting Process
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…
Red Dragon Head: Process + Video
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…