jester & dragon
Added 2024-03-07 16:56:30 +0000 UTCthis is a birthday present for my friend's birthday next week, briar is their character! ćiro's outfit colors were supposed to be temporary but I still haven't figured them out so she's just going to have to deal with them for now.
I went through a bunch of sketches for this piece so I thought I'd go through them here-
this was my original concept for this piece- she was going to be booping briar on the nose with her bunny wand, which would have been adorable, but I wanted to focus more on the idea of her balancing and jumping on him like he's a jungle gym instead. also he has six wings and I wanted to draw all of them and couldn't fit them in here.
so I sketched this instead, but some parts of it were feeling kind of flat to me... so I tried a trick I use when my sketches seem too flat-
I imagined I could sort of tilt the whole thing, like I moved the camera up and above them a bit, and did a really rough sketch of that.
then another sketch working with the new angle, except on some of briar's coils at the end where I ended up preferring the first sketch. I think briar is going to eat ćiro in this one
then another more refined sketch on top of that! I ended up liking the look of this sketch under the lines in the finished piece so I kept it in and erased a couple spots to clean them up.
