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<blockquote data-quote="Liquide" data-source="post: 559452" data-attributes="member: 1407">First, the lady became the focus of the pic when you made her the centre front piece but enough of that from me now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The muscle tone I created in my pic is done with an eraser and not a pencil I might add BTW. First I fill all the body areas with the muscle lines, fill in lots of light pencil fillings. Then I use the eraser to define the highlighted muscles and smudge out the shadows (just discovered this technique and it is fast and gives a quite nice result, takes some time to master though)Neck seems OK to me mate, I tend to make it a bit shorter and more musculer since I want to give the impression of a muscular and agile predator that uses its neck to tear away bits of flesh when it has grasped an opponent/carcass, but that is just my personal preference.Dragons need spikes and bony plates <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> , it is not the dragon that does the detail. It is the detail that does the dragon, the more detail (and smaller details) you can put into the pic to more firghtening it will look and the more real people will percieve your dragon as.Ok enough of my thoughts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Liquide, post: 559452, member: 1407"] First, the lady became the focus of the pic when you made her the centre front piece but enough of that from me now :) The muscle tone I created in my pic is done with an eraser and not a pencil I might add BTW. First I fill all the body areas with the muscle lines, fill in lots of light pencil fillings. Then I use the eraser to define the highlighted muscles and smudge out the shadows (just discovered this technique and it is fast and gives a quite nice result, takes some time to master though) Neck seems OK to me mate, I tend to make it a bit shorter and more musculer since I want to give the impression of a muscular and agile predator that uses its neck to tear away bits of flesh when it has grasped an opponent/carcass, but that is just my personal preference. Dragons need spikes and bony plates :) , it is not the dragon that does the detail. It is the detail that does the dragon, the more detail (and smaller details) you can put into the pic to more firghtening it will look and the more real people will percieve your dragon as. Ok enough of my thoughts :) [/QUOTE]

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