Dragons, anyone? (Updated with new work)

andyc

Hello, and Happy New Year.

It's been a VERY long time since I last posted here, but good to see some familiar names still producing amazing work.

The main reason for my absence is that SketchUp is no longer a major part of my work, although I do still dabble from time to time.

Anyway, I thought I'd share some stuff from my latest personal illustration project: The Dragons of Wales. Lots more info and explanation on my website: http://www.dragonsofwales.com and also on Twitter and Facebook, if any of you ever venture over there

A mixture of traditional media, SketchBook Pro and Photoshop.

Hope some of you will enjoy this, and thanks for looking.

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Rich O Brien

Stellar and great inspiration to try make a SketchUp version.

andyc

Thanks guys.
Rich: if you decide to tackle a sketchup version, I'd love to see the results!
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kaas

nice style and great characters!

pbacot

Beautiful work! I admire your ability to help bring the image to life with background and light. Great color too!

solo

Love 'em!!

I have a wall that fb4 would look awesome on.

As always, your stuff is jaw dropping.

What are you using in place of SU these days for blocking out?

andyc

Thanks Solo.

If I have to do any complex 3D blocking, I still use SketchUp - nothing else comes close for that job. But for simple perspective layouts, SketchBook Pro has some really neat little perspective sketching tools. There's a video here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngLhGySVYLQ It means I spend less time switching between packages, which is always a good thing. It took me a while to overcome my natural aversion to anything 'AutoDesk'(!) but I have to say, SketchBook Pro is a great tool for my purposes.

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pilou

Very cool!

Seems a new familly of program is born against toshop!
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Mike Amos

Amazing dragons, fantastic.

Stinkie

Good stuff.

marleus

Really great stuff Andyc

and beatiful "birdies"

Wish I could make images like these. I allways had a soft spot for fantacy illustrations

Markus the geezer

andyc

Thanks for such a kind and generous response guys.

Here are four new images from the same project...