#ray dragon

[crispyfishsticks]

Older sketch. Can't decide which way I want to go - bright daylight or evening storm?

[victimkiller]

[crispyfishsticks]

solarbeardragon I forgot to ask but, is there a place to read on the rays? I’ve only seen pictures but idk much about them.

I don't have anything formal about them online. They inhabit their own world, and most if not all the ray dragons are clever animals that fill their own ecological niches.

Emperor's are the crankiest, and tend to travel solo in the foothills and valleys. Ridge rays inhabit cliffs and mountains. Salmons and croc rays are swamps and wetlands, etc.

[crispyfishsticks]

In January I got it in my head that I wanted to paint a few juvenile Ridge Rays hassling an Emperor Ray for landing in their roosting area. Did the first rough that month and then put it down for a while. I started thinking about it again last week after working on the other piece and pulled it out today at lunch, to correct proportions and work out a bit more depth and energy. Will update on this piece again when I've worked out the next set of changes and done a color pass on it.

[crispyfishsticks]

Salmon Dragon smile. I only have one lunch of doodling this week, so I set up a SD portrait to render out laters.

[crispyfishsticks]

Spent my lunch hour working out a rough sketch from doodles done during a meeting. My thought process ended with juvenile ridge rays harassing an emperor ray dragon. I think it would be cool to paint, once I'm happy with posing and comp.

[crispyfishsticks]

Sketch night. Working on the croc ray body.

[crispyfishsticks]

Ruminating on scale stuff. A closer pass at the Ridge Ray face, pulling more heavily from my reference (photo/animal in foreground is mine).