@daring-celt 28 November 2021

Digital art_2019. Mountain Dragon Hi friends! Who was hot in the desert, let's move to the northern country!))) https://read.cash/@daring-celt/oriental-house-with-pots-drawing-with-pen-brushes-31ba4216 You know I like to drawing a different mystical creatures. It's very fascinatingly to create unique owner worlds on a paper or with digital pen Usually, if I draw to art contest I make some sketches and then choose one of them as best. This dragon was one of sketches to Winter theme contest

Sketch in **Photoshop CC 2018** I imagined a big dragon sitting on top of the highest rock even above the sun, and many snow-capped mountains around...

Color palette. I wanted to draw in concrete color gamma, in cold shades, an example.

Base colors of background. I use an usual hard brush with reduce opacity and flow

Choose a base colors of dragon & rock on foreground. They must stand out against the cold landscape.

Switch off the visibility of the sketch layer and determine the direction of lighting - from the Sun above far mountains

Work with details - light, shadows, clouds, mountain textures I've a set of my own made brushes with texture which I use them in this artwork

Winter mountain sun and chains of forests on a mountain slopes

On this step I decide I don't like very poor color palette and add a adjustment layer **Color Lockup** And sketch a scales and thorns of the dragon

Detailing the dragon Completely fantasy character, I don't even know if there are such))))

This is how everything looks in the big picture.

Finally I add some dramatic shades with **Curve layer.** And more mist on back mountains to highlight foreground. It's what I got!

I hope you like Dragons too)) Have a nice and creative day! Regards **Many thanks to my sponsors @Belozoriana and @Arte-macarre for her support to all my drawings!**