Each of the pages in James Owen’s book All the Colors of Magic has fun challenges to them. He achieves many amazing effects with his pen and ink work. Putting color to those pieces that is worthy of them really pulls out my desire to do my best.
The next piece up is “The Black Dragon Returns”. I didn’t have a wide range of greys to make for the “blackness” of the ship, so I went with dark blue and purple along with the black.
I wasn’t entirely happy with that endeavor, and so I opted to try another page that I felt I would be very pleased with.
“Out of the Darkness” has long-lost dragons falling out of the cloud-filled sky. I decided to color all the dragons the same fiery color mix, and make the sky clouds dark and purpley. That’s me and those strong colors again.
It is very restful to be going at these design challenges. I like playing with color.
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