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"Vigilant 2" by Rachael Mayo

SF&F Picture 71 out of 71 by Rachael Mayo

SciFi and Fantasy Art Vigilant 2 by Rachael Mayo

This is the product of about two weeks' worth of lunch hour doodling and coloring. I made this with Prismacolor Verithin pencils - just the measly little 12-color set - as an exercise in effective use of a limited color range. It's great for practicing a layered approach to coloring, rather than my ususal tendency to smash the colors together like clay.

To answer a couple of questions that people have posed:

I did draw this with pencil first (see the work in progress). I erased the pencil lines for each section (ususally a loop of body or one set of feathers) as I colored. I wanted the dragon to look softer than my inked-and-colored work, and this seemed the best way to do so.

Date	Name	Comment
10 Jan 2008	Miriam Tschanen	Loading... You're so immensely talented. Seems hardly fair to me. sniff No, seriously, this is so beautiful.
27 Jan 2008	Selena Fae Xu	Loading... wow, i’m just absolutely speechless! The colors you chose are amazing and gives it a very royal kind of look. Your ability with color pencils are amazing! Rachael Mayo replies: "Thanks very much! The color scheme is one of my favorites - blues and violet and a hint of green - it’s always a fun one to work with. It’s a comfortable set of colors, too. I was just breaking into this new set of colored pencils at the time and in order to get used to the new medium (much harder lead than I had used before), I ran my coloring experiment with a scheme I knew I could control fairly well."
12 Apr 2008	Sindri	Loading... the title reminds me of something Mad’Eye (HP) used to say: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!" nice pic, too! Rachael Mayo replies: "LOL - I started working on the Vigilant series long before Harry Potter came along. It’s been ages since I played with the Qetzlcoatl-type dragons, though, and the original theme kind of got swept by the wayside in favor of just playing around with feather designs. ^_~"
17 Apr 2008	Loves for inuyasha	Loading... how do you draw these there so beautiful but it always looks like a dragon jumble how do you draw it without getting mixed up Rachael Mayo replies: "I keep track of the various body parts initially by putting in little arrows to show what direction the loops are going... snicker I erase these as I go, and once I have the individual scales in place, I use those scales to keep the shape of the body and the direction of movement consistent."
7 Apr 2009	Danny Black Bird Phoenix Irimia	Loading... Lovely!!!

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About 'Vigilant 2':

• Status: OK
• Created by:

Rachael Mayo
• Copyright: ©Rachael Mayo. All rights reserved!

• Keywords: Dragon, Quetzlcoatl, Feather, Serpent, South, America, Mexico
• Categories: Dragons, Drakes, Wyverns, etc
• Techniques: Coloured Pencils
• Submitted: 2007-11-04 18:13:34
• Views: 1431
• Resolution: 782x997

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