Final Paintings

1. 2 Character paintings
2. 2 Environment paintings
3. 1 Mixture of character and environment painting

1. Dragon no.1

2. Dragon no.2

3. Environment 'Dragon Lair' no.1

4. Environment 'Castle' no.2

5. Mixture painting

Compositional Painting

I loved/enjoyed painting this piece, one of my favorite so far. This painting has some of unique proportional settings and it sends very euphoric, mellow feeling. I didn't realized that this piece had little bit of similarity or similar vibe from 'The Lord Of The Rings' until when I did the concept and started painting this piece, maybe its because of this intense light brightening up the entire space.

Later on, I have looked up some references from 'The lord of the rings sketchbook: Portfolio' by Alan Lee, very fascinating indeed and was an immense help for this piece.

First, getting the concept work done.

Now, put some colours into it to see what kind of vibe it's going to emit.

Freshening it up

Then voila! putting some heavy contrast does give this painting even more chill to it.

Since this piece is going to be a compositional painting, its obviously essential to put character as well to match up with the environment. So this picture shows where I will paint the character and hope it fits well with the environment.

Progression and progression, the character's shape may have been done, but it needs more painting to do.

With numerous amount of tries, it got to this stage.

Plus, boat is just a bonus, maybe by putting a boat, there will be another perspective view which the boat goes towards to the sunlight.

Dragon 2

After the first try of painting dragon (Dragon 1), it might be a little ambitious but its always a good try for a higher setting, dragon with multiple heads (in my personal opinion, it is always a great idea to start a painting with alot of things to do, even though its obviously difficult to complete it, it will enhance the ability to paint and getting the idea of perspective view as you go along the painting.)

First of all, as I always say about the painting, the position of the dragon is acceptable. Its time to start painting up more!

Its getting there, with some textures on the rock and detailing up the dragon. But somehow, the dragon's figure itself, it isn't just right. Something had to be fixed.

(Another painting here to show the difference and why i needed to adjust the painting and where it needed to be changed)

 1. Where is the another wing?
 2. The middle head might be too small compare to the other heads
 3. Possibly to put more juiciness

Final version of the painting (maybe in the near future, I will be putting more details and higher contrast to actually pop out the dragon even further stage)

Dragon 1

First of all, this character was in a bit of a distorted position to begin with, the position of the bod may fit but the head of the dragon is just completely off the scale. However, this is the time for me to step up and start fixing this dragon.

Finally, the dragon in the below seems to fit the dragon in a better position. A lot better.

Since this dragon is in the right positon (or in the position where I think the dragon fits the best), now its time to start detailing up this dragon.

Detailing is still in the progress but it will be much nicer to put some contrast and actual lighting in the painting.

and yes, with few tries and changes, this character finally looks alot more 3D and actually stands out

Just adding few more adjustment