WIP week 8 (Démie)

I did struggle with my dragon head, I couldn't get satisfied and I found it hard to understand the shape of the face and the horns. Using a couple of photos refs, I tried to break down the shape like "top view" and "front view" (which helped a lot!)

So I went redraw the head in 3/4 profil, did the value sketching. At that point, I felt there was a contrast problem, but wasn't sure how it would played out.

So I did a very ruff and quick color sketching/test. A then saw where it felt wrong, corrected it. (I did some corrections on the horse too, but photoshop crashed and lost it... So the horse is a little too "bright"; I'll re-correct that later).

The color is very ruff, it's a WIP. The dragon should look like glowing with a fire from within... I'm not quite sure yet how I'll render that; I have a couple of ideas I would need to put to the test...

So, here's where I am at now: