I decided to start by drawing the dragon character, Saphira, as she is essentially the main key character of the book, or at least its selling point considering she's on the cover. Speaking of the cover art i decided to try and redesign it to be simpler and easier to animate based upon the description of Saphira given in the book; dignified, noble, deep sapphire blue scales, several times larger wingspan, wide space ed talons, roughly triangular head, upper white fangs and claws like polished ivory,spikes down her neck and a gap where the shoulders join. I focused on the head descriptions trying to get across a feminine design for her while working towards a noble/ dignified triangular head. Some were too thin while others were too masculine but i came to one i liked and i also worked on variants of eyes to try and show a sort of care and almost motherly attribute to match her caring and knowledgeable nature.
My one problem is that it looks too complicated to be an animation and i don't like the style for animation, if it was just for illustration i wouldn't mind the style but it looked too realistic, well as realistic as a mythological character can look like. There wasn't any life in the style either and i don't know how i would apply it to humanoid characters.
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