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Work in progress. If you recognize this, it’s because I’m painting a copy in oils of an image I previously painted digitally. Which is weird.
Also I guess the World Wide Web has really taken off? Good for it.
Turned in a few rough sketches for this one. You can see I had this idea to show red-shifted and blue-shifted versions of his time-raveling arms. Too busy for a trading card, though.
They picked the one I most wanted to do, so that was nice. Here are a few of its steps.
My other favorite part of the painting is just this section right here. It's funny what you end up latching on to.
My favorite part of this painting is the white head. I imagined a frost dragon might have a constant fog around her head, and in the right lighting you'd get a rainbow.
That's what happens when you hire children's book illustrators to paint your dragon—pretty rainbows.
Drawing a dragon head is like drawing a fancy car—there's a lot going on, and it's easy to mess up the perspective. I feel pretty good about how these turned out, but with distance I'm starting to see the flaws.
That first one was part of my editorial portfolio, and the second was just a class exercise, but here’s one of my mid-nineties attempts at a children’s book piece, some five years before I’d break into that industry.
Boy, does this look cute.
A lot of illustrators on here will know Ben Zhu from Gallery Nucleus, and he's made his first picture book! You can get signed copies here: https://t.co/FOtV1TFyEj