Tom's Art Adventures

For the sake of fantasy, a genre I’ve enjoyed since reading
Robert E. Howard in my early teens. This piece took me 12 – 15
hours to do and it was a great challenge. I created some custom
dragon scale and foliage brushes to get the final look. Thanks for
dropping by and hope you like the results.

“Sister’s First Flight” digital painting is coming along…at
least, I feel the attempt at colors on it is taking some shape.

Here are two stages up to now.

I’m working at a fairly low resolution – 150dpi and an average
2000px by 1200px and keeping any details to a minimum. This
way my computer doesn’t bog down too much while blocking in
large areas of color. Also the strokes I use with the stylus remain
pretty responsive and smooth. BTW, I’m using a 15″ cintiq tablet.
If I were to be working at final print resolution, say 300 to 600dpi
my computer would likely freeze up or stutter as I make each
stroke. I’ll leave any fine details such as faces, lizard scales, hair,
gravel, foliage etc. until last when I can safely bump up the file
size and resolution.

Stay tuned. Oh, and Happy New Year!