Looking for Shade's ref? Um... Don't use one of the old ones just look for the thumbnail 1. If you remember this one, you get a gold star cause you're probably one of like three people. There is some blood but it's not very high quality. The face is what kills me tho aaa. I dropped these spikes cause they didn't work with different neck bends. Don't even get me started on the underbelly- hhh- too spikee- 2. AAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOO MY EDGY PHASE CONTINUED AFTER THE FIRST REF (wait aren't you still in your edgy phase quill) 3. I put way too many details into this, and missed too many details as well. I was so focused on the ref and his accessories that I made his design extremely boring. The declawed thing didn't stick for long cause it made so much sense with his backstory... but looked ugly. I changed the blood to purple kehehe 4. 'That doesn't even look like Shade or a ref... Oh! Is this sToLen from that one wof youtuber-' Shutupppp I know I stole their art style This is his current ref. The wing speckles are the gold color on a different blending mode, and the end of the tail is made of metal cause it got bitten off. I swapped out the grey for a white and now he looks fancy! I made him more purple too, now he looks more like a deadly nightshade flower. Sudden improvement on the last one compared to my dragons from like, yesterday, is cause i did a superlong study on the art style I was trying to steal. Want to draw like someone you look up to? Practice makes perfe- Actually just trace their art, then try drawing what you traced, but don't trace then post it cause that's something actually wrong- tracing is a learning tool but you shouldn't rely on it.
This is your sign to make a ref where the character isn't doing a robot pose, and you don't need to show different angles or wing sides cause of the complex pose. SHADE HAS A CROWN. DON'T FORGET IT. YOU HAVE FULL RIGHTS TO GIVE HIM COOL LOOKIN EARRINGS CAUSE WHY NOT Hey hey I'm gonna draw woffs from hilda then make a project called 'woff art' and people will think it's wings of fire art and they will be confuzzled and I will have succeeded in life
