Heofondraca

Well.

There it is. An artwork that stands a meter tall. And for you imperial heretics that would be 3 feet and 3⅜ inches.

I remember starting this in February 2017. Felt weird to call it quits now.
I don't say finished for a reason. It's not finished. It's not done yet. But I had to quit.
It only reinforced the belief that I could spend an eternity creating artwork and I'd never truly be able to show Him the way that would satisfy.
There's always some detail you know. And even if you've got that all right there's a dozen more expressions I've never tried to paint yet.
Add to that a hundred kind of poses and a thousand types of scenery. And that's only one very special dergen!

Surely some of you might know the feeling that you're doing something the wrong way. I felt the same while working. I knew I should just create artworks
on a tighter schedule and learn faster that way. I knew it, but I still wanted to go through it. Experience it all you know. Work on Him late and wake the next
morning faced with an unfinished artwork on the whiteboard. Day in day out. It changes something in your head. Sometimes you have a breakthrough moment -I remember it
while doing his eyes for example- and you get all happy on how it worked out. A little satisfaction. Three days later and you find yourself scouring the painting taking
all those breakthroughs for granted. As normal. The bar is raised higher and you look at them critically, the breakthrough forgotten, for points of improvement.
You work on it some more and some days later you decide some part -which you might have loved at first- looks shite and needs to be redone.

Until today that is. Today I call it done. With all its faults and errors, today do I surrender.
I only fiddled with little bits and pieces left and right without progressing much, and knew I was done.

I've said it before. But after this journey I truly want to speed up my art process and learn to properly crank out artwork of the highest quality quickly too.
Because this is what I want to do. And I want to be the best at it. I was a guy who only drew stick figures and otherwise couldn't draw for me life.
And with this artwork I feel like I've hit the right note. This is the medium I want to master and the type of dragon-work I want to create.
Make it as real as possible. As close to reality as I can. Exercise and practice until it feels like the artwork's might move and breathe.
But I can't afford to work so long on single artworks. Especially not with the time-pressure from uni
I knew this mostly along the line. But I still had to go through it. Experience is the master-teacher of all things.

By now Ive framed it to overlook my messy command center So, to end it; thank you kindly for your interest!
I'll promise to outdo myself then and again. Take care!

100x70 blackpaper using Schminke softpastels and Koh-I-noor hardmuth's. Sealed with talens pastel fixative. Framed along with a glass sheet coated with some anti-reflective layer that almost makes me wish I bought a museum-grade glass panel.
_{(But hey that would be vanity right?)}