Aloa Jungle Painters, 

jungle is rolling again and you will not believe how much content has to be brought to the Massive Voodoo blog in the next couple of months. I for my part got so much to tell - painting-wise and about life.

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Before we dig deeper into storystelling let's go for a quick walkthrough aka step by step of one damn fine dragon bust that I painted in the end of last year. It was done as a comission for a local friend who worked at a restaurant I often find myself eating. A gift to her husband who loves dragons. A big surprise for him.

The bust we both choose is Khaarzul by Artefakt Miniatures.
So much dragon love going on over there. Have a look!




Primed black and white (no photo).
Started sketching in my color choices and color placements. Bam! Bam! Bam! Love these rough sketches. They help me to see the final vision in the end already.



My plan is actually to keep the blueish parts interesting whilst working with all that lovely detail sculpting work on the dragon scales. For the dark reds I decided to make these areas pop out with saturation. The clients wish was a dragon that looks evil and fiery.


Always I am painting my plinth black after the first sketch to have a better overall picture and no bright wooden plinth that distracts.



I gently sprayed the lower body part darker by using the airbrush and a dark blue/black glaze. I kept the head bright to make it the most interesting area of focus later on.


I reworked the scales in the lower body area whilst creating stronger highlights on the top of the head.
I started to seperate scales from eachother by darklining with some blue/black.

I decided to put some work in the red parts and carefully highlighted them with saturation to more red first, then orange and on some parts on the head even mixed in some white for final highlights.




I started to work more on the scales and gave the black horns first gentle highlights. A sprayed glaze of blue/black again pulled everything together again, but also darkened the overall look.



I like to do this quite often as it helps me to be able to create stronger highlights again and again, but every time with more complex details. So reworkking details in highlights it was once again.


I took quite good care to paint every scale. If you love dragons you gotta love dragons, eh?


Final photos were made and looked like this:




You can also find him on Putty&Paint.

Both, my client and her husband were superhappy and it was really wonderful to see them so happy about this creation and paintjob.

Thanks to Artefakt Miniatures for such a cool dragon sculpt! Get yours at
Khaarzul by Artefakt Miniatures. 

I hope you enjoyed this quick walkthrough.
Keep on happy painting!
Roman

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