Poison Arrow Dragon

Done in Adobe Photoshop 7

My tablet's getting wonky. Tabby (yes, my tablet's name is Tabby) has lost her pressure sensitivity. Add that to a monitor with a really dark resolution (imagine, I have to send work-in-progress files to my friends in order to check if my lines are really black. Often it turns out that my "black" is actually green, violet, blue or gray. Bummer.) and you've got a drawing nightmare. Yay!

I'm very frustrated with this drawing. It seems that the background and the dragon itself doesn't go too well. Hell, I'm tired and I'm uploading this no matter what. Sue me.

And why poison arrow Dragon. If you haven't noticed, the colors are loosely based on Poison Arrow Frogs (the head is based on a goat, but we're getting out of topic). The idea is that this dragon is a forest dweller and, inside the forest, its coloring acts as a camouflage. When it goes out of the forest canopy, it acts as a deterrent to other bigger dragons (it's a smallish kind of dragon), saying something along the lines of "I'm poisonous! Eat me and we'll die together!"

I'm such a geek.





Comments, suggestions, violent reactions, clarifications are encourage and accepted. Especially on the background-dragon harmony, or whatever artists call it these days.


Edit: darkened the background a bit. Freakin' stupid monitor, giving me a fucked up calibration.