DAGRON
Katt and I painted some dragons last night. I can see why it’s a popular pastime. There is no definitive dragon the way there is, say, a definitive horse. If you paint a horse that’s got really short legs and a really long neck, people are going to get upset. If you paint a dragon that’s got some anatomic trouble, though, people will be all, “Hey, that’s cool. Dragons are crazy like that.”
There’s a similar relaxingness about painting, especially if you don’t really know how to paint. Paint, to me, is quite uncontrollable. I brush out a stroke, and usually, it ends up not having the HSV value that I thought it would, or it starts dribbling into adjacent strokes, or it’s all streaky instead of smooth. Once you accept that, then the unpredictability becomes amusing. Usually.
So, here’s my guy:
Somehow, he ended up with the color scheme from the Five Alive carton. (I bet that stuff would be not so great if I had it now, but I remember it as the pinnacle of fruit drinks when I was 7. I hear it’s still in grocery stores in other states, so I’ll have to look out for it.)
As is often the case with the color schemes I come up with, it looked better when I moved the hue slider on it in Photoshop:
Lesson learned: When painting stylish flame decals, don’t skip out on the red. It activates the “Aw, hell yeah” centers of the brain.
Here’s Katt’s dragon:
He’s definitely way more animal-like than my dragon, what with the snout, tongue, and curly toes, yet at the same time, he knows the ways of man.
Art, like, makes you think and stuff.
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