I typically try to remove any nipples from stuff I’m doing so I can post it on Tumblr directly. However, after trying to do so on this picture, I gave it up as a lost cause so I’m posting this on my nsfw wordpress blog instead.
This is one of those cases where someone suggested I try coloring an image where I didn’t know the original artist.
Though I certainly like ‘scalies’ like this, I really don’t consider myself that much of a lizard-lover. I just find my style lends itself better than furries as I don’t color fur terribly well. Plus I’m really not that into mega-boobies like this. But still, it was a nice, clean drawing so I gave it a go. I did find the origin though – the drawing was by Bigdad and was a character named NightShade created by DragonofDarkness1992:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26799953/
However, I felt that NightShade’s canon colors were going to be too dark. Plus, it turned out (which I didn’t find out till after I’d done my thing) that someone (D-Day) had already colored her:
Now normally I don’t color something someone already colored, but again I didn’t know it at the time. So instead of her canon colors, I chose a much lighter blue shade and nearly white for her belly:
Had a good time with the firetail, and decided to make her eyes match with internal fire. Obviously I removed the backgroudn too. I wanted the background to be dark, but not too dark to obscure her lines. So I went with a dark grey and added some firelight reflection underneath her…
A little shading and highlighting and I was almost done. However, I have to confess that I thought of something naughty. If her internals were fire, there might be some more glowing bits other than the tip of her tail and her eyes that might be glowing. So…
I’ll let you figure out what else is glowing with internal heat. 🙂 But I wasn’t QUITE done yet. Still looked a little plain. So I found a nice texture that could imply scales, applied and warped it in about 7 different places o her blue part and ended up with this final version:
(Not sure how well that texture shows up on this scaled down version, but it’s there.)
I sent it off to DragonofDarkness1992, and though he complemented me on the coloring, he was right to point out that without her canon colors, it’s really not NightShade. True. Maybe it’s NightShade lighter sister?
bdnsfw 