Chinese New Year - Year of the Black Water Dragon

Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the Dragon! My favorite! I always wanted to draw dragons so not too long ago I started to sketch for the fun of it. Once I had a sketch I liked I decided to play with some Sculpey and I actually created three dragons. Oh, I almost forgot the fourth and tiniest which is less than one inch tall. Great fun! So, at the beginning of this year, I handed out a blank ATC and a postcard to whomever wanted to join in the fun of drawing dragons. All but two participated.
Of course I had to go play in Photoshop too and created the following images. The first one is not from my sketches. I found some terrific dragon tattoo images to use for that. You can see the original colored dragon to the right... and you can just click on that to go directly to the site.
I created the second image from one of my three sketches. I tried out a new technique - really interesting to use a digital program as a scratch board. It was tougher for me than I expected. It is not easy for me to think in reverse and that is what you need to do to accomplish that technique. Please note that I have added some of my favorite fantasy artists with an example of their work...also on the right side of this blog. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

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