Having not touched my tablet for way too many months, Steve was making puppy eyes for some fanart for his novel. As it involves lovely ladies in minimal clothing and dragons with cities growing on their backs, I couldn't really resist. In this scene the main character Natalie is running from her home in a massive city to the dragon city which has landed in the fields surrounding it.
Being from the ameteur school of "draw some lines and colour in the gaps" I'm really trying this time to make something a bit more painterly. I want to go for an old school scifi book cover look, a bit kitsch and fun. I've got to this point and I'm liking the colours and the rough shadows, but I'm now a bit stuck on how to progress. If I draw in all the lines (my usual approach...) I think i'll loose some of the atmosphere and goodness. Also the landscape looks more like sand dunes and is kind of featureless, which I need to work on...
Anyway, thought I'd ask some advice before I screw it up!And yes, i've done the orange and blue thing...
ooh ooh, check out these so bad they're good fantasy book covers.... http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/
