It's time for a month of dragons again! I am indeed participating, and following a list by Katy Lipscomb I believe. I will be doing as many as I'm able to.
The first day was fruit, and I wanted to paint a raspberry dragon, since I've liked them for a long time. I wanted to bring the texture of the berry into the dragon as much as I could, so I added the texture/shape to the scale details. I wanted the painting itself to look like you've caught a glimpse of one of these little guys while looking through a raspberry bush. I only really used two colors for this one.
I started with a rough preliminary sketch in light, erasable colored pencil, then went over it with a regular pencil for adding details and structures. From there I layered in the background leaves slowly, building up the layers there before adding in the color on the berries and dragon itself. I went over the layers of watercolor with colored pencils in a few places to add in more depth.
I will absolutely be painting more fruit dragons, as well as my floral and mushroom ones.