fanart: Iskierka’s hatching

Genre/Fandom: Temeraire Series
Characters/Pairings: Iskierka
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of white conté chalk
Notes/comments: This illustrates Iskierka’s hatching. I hope she looks enough like a baby while still fitting the description that they look just like smaller versions of the big ones. But making the head long and lean like I normally do for dragons to make them look ferocious didn’t work for me for a baby dragon. The coloring didn’t turn out quite like I intended, and for some reason my scanner not only produced a weird stripe artifact that I couldn’t get rid of (it is not that intrusive, but still), it also reproduced the colors less bright than in the actual picture.

Iskierka’s hatching, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 184k).
Iskierka’s hatching, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 136k)

I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture with scans and photos of the inbetween stages.

fanart: Temeraire admiring his jewelry

Genre/Fandom: Temeraire Series
Characters/Pairings: Temeraire
Media: pencil drawing, inked and colored with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: This was done for the Yuletart gift exchange for Tylercat. I’d also like to thank Brown Betty for helping me to come up with a motif, when my initial idea didn’t work out, and for taking a look at the half-finished stages, spotting problems with the rocks and such. Please do not reuse this image as this was gift art for Tylercat.

Temeraire admiring his jewelry — screen resolution (ca. 140k)
detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 180k)
detail of the wing — high resolution (ca. 60k)