Well if you wanted to fit it on the page you could always have just scaled it down narnar :3

anyways, here are a couple of things you might want to think about;

- making the grain of your pencil lines go in the same direction; it looks messy if you make them go all over the place, and you will get better results in your shading if you can start making your pencil work a little smoother. The best way to do this is to build up the shadows gradually, rather than just slapping them on over the pale areas. Start with an overall light gradient, then build up increasingly concentrated layers in the areas you want to be darker.

Also, with regards to the grain of your pencil work, either colour using small, circular movements, or lightly shade keeping your pencil straight over the whole area and maintaining one direction and then switch to colour perpendicular to this direction (i.e, as if you're cross hatching, but you don't want obvious like, checkered lines when you're done)

Never ever resort to smudging it with your finger. I got told to do that by art teachers at GCSE and it's lazy, unprofessional and quite frankly messy. I was shocked to learn that my teachers 'star pupil' got her shading done by using her finger. Trust me, you get far better results by learning how to shade properly. Your art looks so much crisper and cleaner, and not like it got attacked by a five year old with grubby hands.

- Choose the order of colours you want to go on it a little more carefully; I noticed on the belly you seem to have just done a load of yellow over the turqoise spots. This kills the effect of the turquoise. Same goes for the black around the eye; it muddies the red since I assume it got smudged.

- on that note, never ever use black pencil crayon. It's a similar effect to using black paint; it flattens your drawing and eliminates all trace of 3d look you were going with, with your shading. Also, try not to use the same colour over all of the area, build up shadows and highlights using several colours. You'll be amazed at how much better it looks and you will get darker shadows rather then just mashing a load of the base colour into the paper in a vain attempt to make it look dark.

White should only be used (i.e leaving the paper blank) for intense highlights like you see on the shines he has on his spines. For lighter areas on his skin you might want to consider using yellows, creams, a lighter shade of green.

Shadows (not to be done with black! Or even pencil... ) should be created using dark green, dark blues, dark purples, browns, depending on the base colour. For this green dragon you could use dark greeny blues, or heck even plan blue would work. If you're lazy, you can colour the whole thing using flat, mono-shade colour, and then shade using your pencil. But that tends to make the whole picture look grey.

- background? ^^ just a thought.

Anyway, hope that helped.

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