Creation Details
| Sketch | Digital |
| Original Sketch Format | – |
| Line Art | None |
| Shading | Digital, Photoshop |
| Color | Digital, Photoshop |
| Coloring Technique | Speed-paint, very little sketching, if any. I mostly tried to block in color shapes. Color shapes lived on their own layers, making shading process extremely easy |
| Graphics Tablet | Yes, Wacom Intuos Pro M |
| Notes | My first serious digital speed-paint. “Blind painting” is not my thing, I might add… |
A purely digital work that I created as a proof that I could, indeed, do speedpaints. I’ve painted this one in just 2 hours and some minutes… It was easy, seemingly, but I had little control over the outcome. Random stuff is always easy to draw, you don’t give too much thought to it and it just “flows”, but in the end you get a product of pure spontaneity. The only two things that came out exactly how I wanted them were the wings and the tail, although I might now argue that the wings are not properly symmetrical, and it ticks me off.
The theme of the painting is hybridity, a mixture of seemingly antagonistic properties. It’s a dragon, but it’s not. Is it a serpent? It has hair. It flies on leather wings, but it also has feathers… The symbolism of demonic and angelic wings is especially important – I believe that a truly superior being must have both qualities, resulting in something new, something higher and more complete. The creature has a human face to reflect its emotional, nuanced inner nature. It’s a random picture overall, but I think I managed to convey the feeling…
