Volvagia

This took a long time.

I had, a long time ago, a strategy for fire with colored pencils and crayon; this is brought back here. As always, all coloring was done on a trackpad. The black and white sketch this came from is being moved to Scraps.

The amount of layers for this alone was a total of 52, all told. Some are not used. The PSD is 76 MB.

While this took a long time, a lot of effort, and I gave up on the idea of having a painted temple background and ended up, like Leviathan, adding effects to a gradient until it sufficed, I still think that I did a good job with it.


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Just for kicks, a brief screenshot using the background from Leviathan.
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