Rico Holmes
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Another Dragon, this one was commissioned for the book by Shayne Easson over at Phantasy Ink. Again, fabulous, fabulous people to work with, and I sincerely hope they sell bucketloads (especially with the new huge trend for eBooks that the iPad has spawned)
Partly modelled in Maya, partly painted in photoshop. This image is my step into making the dragon series. After the overwhelming response to the Blue Dragon (here) I decided to make a series of images based on the colours.
Being a glutton for punishment I decided to do the Green Dragon as the next in the series -to get the most difficult one out of the way. It's incredibly hard to make a picture dramatic using just green colours as a theme.
Broken free from the chains below, the Lizard King is hungry for retribution. Not quite Dragon yet, and on the verge of ascension.
I’m delighted to say this piece is now the cover for Shayne Eason’s Phantasy Ink book coming soon: (website) – a company that have proven to be an absolute pleasure to work with (please, do pop by and pick up a copy!)
The Dragon was modelled and rendered in Maya. The background hand painted in Photoshop.
I've always been a great fan of Dragons and fantasy art, so this has just been a joy to work on over a couple of recent weekends.
The Red Dragon is a beast I've been meaning to make for some time now, so it was a great opportunity to make alongside a journal (the making of this image) .. which can be found in another area of this site.
I very much wanted something a little more brutal than the sleek form of the Blue Dragon image. Blue is a word/colour that I associate with "sleek", red is a word that brings "pitbull" to mind. The concept sketch is just that- a sketch and this thing will change with time. It's not the pose I'm aiming for in the final image, but good for modelling purposes and it does feel right.