Mountain Peak Dragon Over a Quiet Village coloring page
It is a friendly dragon atop one of the mountains looking over a pleasant village with clean lines and large shapes and cozy details that are ideal to color by kids.
This serene, fairytale shot displays a peaceful dragon in a mountain range awaiting on a rocky cliff as a small town can be seen lying on a hillside. The rounded horns, soft plates that make up the belly, and the scalloped scales on the back help the dragon remain sweet and cuddly, and the folded back wings make big areas to fill in with color easily. The mountain has smooth rock faces and some snow caps to add easy shading and the pine trees follow the contour down the hill in neat clusters. Cosy cottages with triangle-shaped roofs, a small clock-house and a meandering stream take you through the valley. Twisting smoke out of chimneys, fields quilted together and bridges arced add flair to the imagery without crowding it. The sky is surrounded by puffy clouds and two hills in the distance and the entire image is contained within a thin, neat edge so the completed artwork appears clean in a binder or a frame. The featured design optimizes larger spaces (wings, sky, mountain faces) with fulfilling smaller details (roof tiles, window squares, tree tips, scale rows) to ensure that colorists will not be able to stop until the design is completed.
Method to color (step-by-step)
Sunfare Crawl: peaches, golds, mellow lavender sky; jade or teal dragon; roof tiles made up of terracotta.
Bluebird Day: clear sky blue; the field emerald greens; sea-glass dragon; tan rocks warm.
Moonlit Quiet: indigo sky, silver on rock and roof lines; teal or lilac dragon.
Undercolours first: paint light even colour on the dragon (leave belly plates and inner wings slightly lighter), then block in the shapes of the sky, of mountains, and of the main village.
Model the beast: Darken under the jaw, in folds of the wing, where the body joins the rock and behind the tail tip. Keep small white stripes on snout, tip of horns, couple of scale edges.
Snow and rock: On the mountain use mid gray or warm tan base. Intensify shadows beneath overhangs and in fissures of rocks; and leave snow caps nearly white with a suggestion or an undertone of cool blue or lilac in the shadowy areas.
Pine trees: Use 2 greens one darker in the middle of the trees and the other lighter toward the exterior of the tree. Add some small darker marks in areas of intersection of branches to add texture.
Roofs of village houses Vineyard-type roofs: Try terracotta or slate; have house walls cream, light gray, pastel. interior dappling under eaves of the roof, and at the edges of the windows, to give depth.
Fields & stream: Patch the fields--greens and golds alternating. Make the stream very light blue, with streaks lighter where it is catching the sky; smoky where it is passing under bridges.
Clock tower & bridges: Place a soft shadow on one side and small amounts of white highlights on edges to have a sharp effect.
Sky and clouds: Shade in the sky mid-way in the horizon, darker where it is high-crowned. Shadow in the bottoms of the clouds; put a slight haze behind the sun or moon.
