u/GLe3b_GlorB

Sooooo i tried an angle i wasn't confident with and it went exactly as I expected, as much as I think it looks bad it gave me time to figure out the nitty gritty of what I want my protagonist to acutely look like, in writing, because its from her perspective its only really described from others comments on her, since it follows her perspective you don't really get too much of a solid description besides metaphors like 'a ripped tight broad build, stacked upon one another making red scales like iron clad muscles, but timidly slumped down like a tower made of crumbling sand.'

In the writing its a mater of describing their character physically so you have an idea of a dragon that reflects their personality, so getting a solid design is a challenge. I tried giving her spikes but that just looks like shittily drawn hair, i think next im going to focus on a consistent headshape and decide for sure what i want. That and getting good at drawing wings because god are they hard.

(originally I was going to take a quote from the book of one of the protags depressing scenes, but I feel the drawing is too bad to deserve it, so ill throw one of them out when I feel one captures the feeling. Also I'm not telling the protagonist's name until i can draw her well. then I’ll introduce her.)

"I think I get it, It's just so much simpler... Nature is cruel and uncaring, but its nice in its own way, it doesn't discriminate or hate you, there's no hard commitments or pressures besides just living out here... Here, you can just. live."

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"Uhh... I feel like you're analysing this way more deep that I do, and I don't really get what you mean but I'm glad you're enjoying the wilderness!"

"Thank you Som."
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This is my first drawing of my protagonist, this isn't accurate to how she'd look in the story as I already know it'll be hard as hell to draw her. But she's nice character and I want to at least try to draw her even though she's not the tall physical unit she is in the book with the posture of a paralyzed gerbil with crippling self doubt.

You can't spell fun without 'Learning anatomy for a fictional creature so I'm consistent'.

Making a book about dragons and dragon religion, and I’m a cheep bastard so I’ll simply get good enough at drawing dragons until I can draw the book cover myself. And what better way to stay motivated than by throwing my scribbles into the internet for possibly thousands of people.