Welcome to fantasyland!

 

Here is Cyrus, the mighty red dragon. Well, he might not be so mighty, but he is red, and he really looks a wee bit frightening. He looks like defending something - the forest, or a dragon's nest, or whatever. 

Dragons usually have a bad reputation - they eat young inncocent maiden for breakfast, they are violent, they are evil. But: maybe they are just creatures of the wilderness and trying to defend nature against men who come into the forest and cut the wood down?

Dwarfs usually have a good reputation. They are workoholics, getting minerals out of the earth all day long, working with big hammers on metals. They usually come in groups (like the seven dwarfs). However, there might be a dwarf who is a bit special.

This one here seems to be quite young, and from the look of his clothes is not so much working in a mine, but seems to be living in the woods. And have a look at the look on his face! He looks very determined. It could be that he has discovered the red dragon and is very much determined not to give way. On the other hand he's got no weapons. Maybe he and the dragon find a way to get along with each other. Maybe he tells the dragon that he wants to defend nature as well, and so they are both on the same side.

Choosing another medium

After having done quite a few paintings with alcoholbased markers I wanted to try something different - painting with my liquid watercolours. Here I used two colours - a deep blue and a warm grey. The first is a colorex paint, the second an Ecoline one (Colorex is made by Pebeo, and Ecoline by Royal Talens; both are also described as "Watercolour inks".)

I tried to experiment with watering down the paint in order to achieve a shading effect. 

 

White Dragon Queen

Somewhere in this blog I mentioned that I was planning do more drawings on a regular basis. Well, in the middle of last week I thought I put that plan into practice - but nothing worked. I was deeply frustrated but decided to keep on trying. I remembered the grid technique and tried that. Gimp 2.10 offers the possibility to lay a grid over an image - so I looked for a photo, downloaded it, put the grid over it, put up the grid on paper and began to draw. What you can see above is the result of my first try.