I rolled some dice and Vogul ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/vogul/ ) won 1 hour of my time. One of the extra lucky friends in my series of commission examples. And he requested that I use that time to paint something cute. I hope all your hearts now melt for how cute this dragon is! >:D
There is a video for this one too: https://youtu.be/LoKhlO5nFmI
There are some shades I forgot to blend, that's true, but some hard edges in the shadows are fun. :D
But with the scales I would disagree. Having a rough texture would change the character of the painting. Soft skin looks a lot cuter, so going in between with a dull skin to indicate the harness of scales while still giving soft optics seemed the best choice to me. Maybe some bumpiness would have worked here. but I think it would have created too much noise on a light body like this. d:
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Volt Siano
Oh, would you look at that? My heart's melted.