An image for an art exchange.

I got to draw Mistral! With April showers as a theme, yeah rain! Glad to see the snow leave. I have to appologize because I feel like the image puts Mistral on the back burner (so to speak) with the primary focus being the backing theme instead. You wouldn't know it was Mistral if I didn't say! I feel kinda bad

I had this grand plan to try a triptic type piece with a sense of motion with the dragon moving through each piece. As per the way I'm moving through with my traditional studies I'm aiming for mood, depth, and a play on color. As the image developed the objects stopped making any sense with the exception for the center piece. I tried a lot of different ways of working all of which either didn't contribute to the image. Couple examples would be another mini-dragon that lacked any kind of visible detail or a large image of Mistral that took up a good portion of the image (origionally planned) that ended up looking so awkward that the image lost all meaning and connection.

Mistral has so much lovely detail I wanted to do an awesome detailed busty type thing but I'd end up in the exact same postion (lol sooo theres a dragon, whats the theme? XD) but dead lines here, I'll just continue on

Summers here, which doesn't mean more free time, but does mean I have less priority work; so I think a make-up piece is in order for later