Majestic Eastern Dragon Winding Through Clouds coloring page
Long and gracious oriental dragon winds in the clouds of smoke--clear forms and large silhouettes and light details are suitable coloring to use when one wants to relax.
This beautiful coloring picture has a friendly Eastern dragon winding through its sky of billowing clouds. The face of the dragon is benign and stylized with antler-like horn, soft whiskers and a rounded muzzle. Its body is covered with smooth belly plates, but the scales are small, scalloped and some tufts of mane provide texture without fussy small shapes. It has great expanses of easy, S-curvings to color, and you can even make shadow overlap your color. Clouds are abstract swirl puffs and stream ribbons to help show movement; a sun or crescent moon is off to one side and a few star twinkles (or tiny birds) keep the background lively but clear. The entire picture is surrounded with thin clean border that makes your completed page in binder or frame presentable. Even a large area (belly plates, sky, big puffs of clouds) is accompanied by small details (whiskers, rows of scales, strands of mane) to make sure that the colorist has something to do throughout the process.
The coloring (procedure)
Sunset Silk: peach to gold, to soft blue; jade/teal dragon with cream belly.
Twilight Storm: sky indigo-violet; all-silvery sea-glass dragon.
Festival Brights: pure blue sky; red accents and golden colors.
The easy part: The dragon skin is painted in base coats. Belly plates 1 2 shades paler than body; whiskers leave as white as possible or put in large areas of white.
Chisel and smooth down the coils: shade under the body crossing back on itself, under the chin, along body-plate fringes, and also underneath maine tufts. Thin white on the tips of horns, scales and snout.
Scales and mane: Darken one in three or four scales so as to give them some texture. In the cascading hair, fade (with a middle shade at the roots) to lighter tips; apply a single fine bright strand to give the lustre.
Clouds: Have clouds mostly white. Gently tint their underparts with cool gray, pale blue or lavender; darken right where clouds cross behind the dragon to make the silhouette pop.
Sky gradient: Fade paler towards the sun/moon towards darker on the corners. On a night shot sprinkle a few small stars and put a halo around the moon.
Sun/Moon & glow:
Sun: rich yellow centre having tender golden corona touching the clouds near and the edge of the dragon.
Moon: cool gray and only slight rim light; use a few tiny sparkles on the edges of horns.
Accent hues: Select 1-2 accent colors (eg) (coral and gold or mint and lilac) to use at spots of horn, base of whisker and separators to the belly-plate belly-plate-should be done in uniform color to create a finished effect.
Reflected light: Using a warm (sun) or cool (moon) place a thin coat of the light-facing side of the dragon. Darken the other edge a little more to add contrast.
