(wip) Dragon bust

oreoorbitz

Edit: latest progress  

Hi. So I've working on this piece with my mentor for a while. It's roughly based off a concept by J.D austin but I deviated a lot in certain areas.

I use iguana's, alligators and Galapagos turtle's as a reference. My focus was to make the creature menacing but still have "believable" anatomy.

I feel done with the HI poly so I'm going to move unto texturing. This will be the first time I try to fully texture a model so it will be quite a challenge.

oreoorbitz

So i've started the texture. I"m usingthe galapago turtle, and the aligator as a inspiration. So far all texturing done is substance painter.

Aveon

nice! Substance's lighting never does it justice though haha. Maybe it could be afforded to turn the normals up?

lotet

Really cool design, reminds me a lot of monster hunter. would lov to see a 3/4 view.

oreoorbitz

Things I'm thinking of doing/ should do

.Reduce the level of normal detail on the black horns to coincide with the roughness level they have, or increase the roughness ot make less shinny.
. Add some small black spots on the light scales, like alligators have.
.change the surface detail of the beak so its more directional
.decide how shinny I want the lighter horns. I think they should be less shinny
. add a diferent texture in the area where the black horne is damaged
. maybe add some more color blotches here and there
. i'm think of adding a ringed texture to the light horns maybe changing their shape. I'm not really happy with them at the moment
Open to any suggestions

oreoorbitz

Ok i've expirmented with uping the roughness, making the him less shiny overall. also added some changes mentioned above.

oreoorbitz

ok few changes here and there, I added a specular levels map to act as a cavity and make the scales pop out more. resized the eye so the pick oif the socket doesn't show as much. played with a few things here and there. I tried to add a background geo but isn't quite working right.
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Wayfray

Agree with Lotet, I like the design. I like the specular masking and the overall features are inventive. Maybe add more glossiness to the horns to contrast with the scales.

jose.fuentes

this is coming along quite nicely, what are you texturing in?

oreoorbitz

So taking a sugestion from my mentor, I tried varying the hues, I quickly changed the dark scales and the dark horns from brown to pale blue, to try to add some contrast, I also added another orange hue here and there. I also upped the gloss o the horns and dark scales again, since it they were getting to dry.

jose.fuentes Substance painter

oreoorbitz

oh gawd. I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I have about 1 week about free time left, so i'm going to try to "finish" this before then.

oreoorbitz

Ok i'm pretty much done now. just going to do some editing in photoshop

CybranM

The texturing is really nice except for the inside of the mouth but I'm not sure what should be changed. It just feels a bit too evenly coloured.
The front of the lower jaw where the pink flesh meets the scale seems a bit odd to me since its such a flat transition between two vastly different types of material.

Great job over all though